Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > requires work and copying the non-free bugs over as well, and you'd > > lose the ability to reassign bugs from and to free packages to and > > from non-free packages but since the archives would be separated > > anyway, I don't consider this as a big problem. > > But, I suspect, you are not planning on doing this work, so > whether you feel it is a big problem or not does not help in bringing > the hypothetical to fruition.
Wrong. I'd be willing to help setting nonfree.org up. This issue is a pain in the ass already, hence I'll be happy to get it off of the table. > And where would the box and bandwidth dome from? Oh, I see, > since it is all hypothetical vapourware, details like that don't > matter. For what it's worth, Daniel Stone already donated a machine for this. It's probably not the optimal solution, but it's a solution we can start with and move services to another machine once a donor feels the need to support Debian users wrt. non-free software. This proposal is not vapourware nor is it theoretical. We've discussed it in small groups already, and I believe it's doable, and probably will result in *.nonfree.org being operational. Sorry to disappoint you. Regards, Joey -- GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems, only some of them. -- The GNU Manifesto