Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > In my humble opinion they should be allowed to be packaged as if they > are normal packages. Don't get me wrong, but Debian is a distribution, > so what we basically do is pack up things that are worth distributing > and distribute them. This way Debian users can benefit from our work and
AFAIK, we do not distribute "things", we distribute *software*. Some packages are just composed of data though, but other packages depend on it. Some is just data that is very useful in the *Debian* project. This includes the keyring. Certainly, the backports.org keyring is useful to some people, *but* it is, 1. not free software 2. free software does not depend on it 3. not part of Debian's important data stuff If backports.org keyring get distributed, then I would argue it allows others, non-software data to be packaged as well. For example, some free anime movies, or the Gutenberg project packages. Debian is for *free software* (and some non-free) and stuff that related to Debian. It is not for backports.org, or Ubuntu, or some other stuff. - Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
