Control: tags -1 - moreinfo + pending thanks This should fix it https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dbab/-/commit/4cd8db27cec918244a9fba3d698a7b0123c9f3f9
and the bug will be closed after a new release. On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 10:57 AM Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 05, 2021 at 09:56:02AM -0500, Tong Sun wrote: > > Thanks Andrey, > > > > Two questions, > > > > By "moved to contrib", did you meant to change > > > > Section: net > > > > to > > > > Section: contrib > > > > in d/control? > Please read > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#archive-areas and > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections > > > Now, let's define what "package cannot function" actually means. If > > functions normally without this or similar unpackaged file, but the > > program is completely data driven, i.e., no ads sites from the list > > are blocked unless the list is there. > > > > So, strictly speaking, the package indeed cannot function without this > > or similar unpackaged file, right? And the solution is just above, > > right? > I don't know the current project consensus on this, if it exists. > If the software can only work with certain non-free files it should go > into contrib, if OTOH it can work with some user-provided files, or with > free files if those exist, it can stay in main. But downloading external > files in postinst is certainly not fit for main. > > -- > WBR, wRAR
