Re: drop or keep non-free - from users viewpoint
Sven Luther wrote:
> 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 ?
You close the bug in the nonfree.org BTS and open it again in the
debian.org BTS, copying as much information as are useful.
It's not as nice as before, of course, but non-free won't use the
Debian infrastructure anymore as well. I believe that this is
an acceptable hassle.
You can't move bugs between the Debian and the GNOME, KDE, Mozilla
etc. bug tracking systems either and this is acceptable already.
Regards,
Joey
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