Re: "keep non-free" proposal
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:59:15PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:14:13PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > So, would you be opposed to have non-free stay on the debian
> > infrastructure, and have some DNS magic mapping non-free.org to it, and
> > this being the exclusive way of accessing this ? This would, i believe
> > be a very costless way of achieving what you want, without excessive
> > cost to our infrastructure.
>
> Personally, I think this would be a good interim solution. Just look at
> how the GNU project handles this with savannah.gnu.org and
> savannah.nongnu.org. Of course, things are a bit different there, as
> nongnu.org is still about Free Software, but their aim is to distinguish
> between the official GNU project and the rest, just like we want to
> distinguish the official Debian project from non-free.
The main problem i see is in the debian mirror network, but i also fail
to see how things will change if the drop non-free vote will pass, and
the mirrors decide to mirror both debian/main and the non-free in a
single apt source. All in all, i think that there is a bit of a lack of
maturity about the remove non-free proposal.
> OTOH, I put up this alternative (DNS and other magic) for discussion
> some months ago, and some people (aj, I believe) said it would be too
> difficult to implement cleanly, or at least not worth the effort. I'd be
> happy to know about the opposite, though, if anybody has a good insight
> into this.
Well, aj said it is not worth the effort. Now, i don't know if it would
be more work than having a fully separate repository.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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