Hi there! On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:03:46 +0100, Steffen Joeris wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:38:51 +0100. Joost Yervante Damad wrote: >> I understand your sentiment, and it is indeed a "grey" area situation. If I >> take policy literary, I think this package is fine in main, but it is not >> as simple... >> >> In order to get this bug rolling (and lenny released ;-) ), can you all >> live with me splitting up the package in two packages: >> >> 1) foo2zjs: this contains everything, and lives in mains, which Suggests: >> 2) foo2zjs-contrib: this contains getweb
I strongly object to a single-script package. Quickly speaking, I think the situation is similar to the kernel firwmare issue ATM discussed on d-d (started at [1]): foo2zjs, the software, seems to be perfectly fine for main, not only because as Steffen already pointed out some printers can work without the non-free firmware [2][3]. And despite upstream opinion [4], all the non-free files have already been stripped out from the package [5]. The only problem remaining for foo2zjs in main is then the getweb script: this can be broken because upstream changes his website layout, but this is nothing different than any other simple bug. If this happened, then we'll fix it, full stop. >> I know a package with just a script is not nice, but it is more in the >> spirit of the debian policy indeed. > > I would like to hear Michael's word on it, since he was the more > active one during the last uploads. In fact, I am happy to give up > maintainership, as this package (and the tiresome discussion around > it) is really no fun. > > Maybe Michael would like to step in and help out maintaining the > package? Since I needed this package and it was broken/not-updated in lenny, I spent some time on it and already offered to take over maintenance [6], but no one replied yet. Again, I volunteer to become part of the Debian maintainer team. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/10/msg00368.html [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449497#10 [3] not that I checked with such printers, I'm only in touch with one that needs a non-free firmware http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466758#15 [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449497#44 [5] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449497#63 [6] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466758#27
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