Package: nvtop Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
The program nvtop (currently version 3.0.1-1 in bookworm=stable) is in "contrib" rather than "main", despite being licensed under the GNU GPL. The copyright file explains that this is because "it is only useful in combination with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers in non-free". This was true in version 1. Since then, nvtop version 2 added support for AMD GPUs (and retconned the "nv" to mean "Neat Videocard"), and version 3 added support for Intel GPUs, so I believe it's now perfectly usable with only free software. The Policy Manual says packages in main "must not require or recommend a package outside of main for compilation or execution". nvtop depends on only 4 packages (libc6, libncursesw6, libsystemd0, libtinfo6), all of which are in "main", and it lists no "recommends/suggests/enhances" packages. All of the Build-Depends packages appear to be in main, as well. Also, the Debian package description is still "Interactive NVIDIA GPU process monitor", while the upstream description is now "GPU & Accelerator process monitoring for AMD, Apple, Huawei, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm". thanks, -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-15-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
