This one time, at band camp, Josh Triplett said: > Daniel Baumann wrote: > > Josh Triplett wrote: > >> open-vm-tools serves no purpose without VMWare. Thus, it should go in > >> contrib. > > > > they are supposed to be vendor neutral, at some point. Rather than > > moving stuff arround, I'd rather keep them in main and see what happens. > > The open-vm-tools homepage has some wishful thinking about hopefully > working with other virtualization technologies eventually, but nothing > concrete. Many packages in contrib could at some point go into main > if they become useful with non-proprietary software, but that doesn't > make it reasonable to put them in main speculatively while they still > only work with proprietary software.
Does this package require non-free sotware for compilation or execution? Is this package simply a wrapper script for non-free software? If either of the above is true, move it to contrib, otherwise, lets close the bug. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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