On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 05:11:34PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Other convenience scripts of similar nature get their own packages and > put into 'contrib'.
The ones you have mentioned already (b43-fwcutter, flashplugin-nonfree and ttf-mscorefonts-installer) do nothing useful without additional, non-free bits, which is why they are in contrib. E.g. flashplugin-nonfree is useless without the non-free flash bits it downloads. It sounds like hp-plugin in isolation is similar, and would fit the bill for contrib; however, if a hypothetical separate hp-plugin package would depend on the hplip package which it is carried in now, then it's reasonably pragmatic for the hplip package to just carry the script, since the majority of functionality offered by the hplip package still does not require the non-free bits. On the other hand, if that script is the sole reason for the Python dependencies, then it would be a service to other users to split out that script for that reason. The place to start would be checking for, and if necessary filing, a wishlist bug. There is a cost involved in having lots of small packages, that we all pay in terms of the size of the distribution Packages list, and the additional complexity of managing the source packages for developers and the bugs that would result. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.
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