Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:22:15AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:46:42AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > > Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> > > 
> > > > If i am stopped from maintaining the driver for the ADSL modem that
> > > > provides me access to the internet, and thus enables me to do my debian
> > > > work, will you step in and pay me (and others who use the same modem) a
> > > > new adsl modem that is supported by non-free software.
> > > 
> > > How could the removal of non-free stop you from maintaining the
> > > driver?  
> > 
> > No more BTS ? no more download area.
> 
> Why shouldn't there be a bugs.nonfree.org?  Cloning the Debian BTS requires
> work and copying the non-free bugs over as well, and you'd lose the ability
> to reassign bugs from and to free packages to and from non-free packages
> but since the archives would be separated anyway, I don't consider this as
> a big problem.

And how do i reassign a bug to ppp for example then ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther