Re: Should Package Web page be changed for non-free (Re: glimpse on CD?)
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:47:20PM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: > On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Galbra>What I find strange if that I managed to download it without realising > it > Galbra>was non-free. I only *now* noticed that it's non-free by putting the > Galbra>cursor on the `Download it!' ftp link and seeing the non-free part in > the > Galbra>path. > > I have built packages and uploaded them to main only to find later > that they depend on non-free libraries that appeared free when I found > them on the web page. (note that when the lib later shows up as a > dependency, it is listed as non-free) . > The web pages will be updated using new scripts RSN. They are 95% done. All that remains to be done is to properly deal with source packages. This is trivial to get right for 90% of the packages, but a royal pain for the rest. This problem and a number of others will be fixed with the new scripts. Jay Treacy
Re: Should Package Web page be changed for non-free (Re: glimpse on CD?)
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Galbra>What I find strange if that I managed to download it without realising it Galbra>was non-free. I only *now* noticed that it's non-free by putting the Galbra>cursor on the `Download it!' ftp link and seeing the non-free part in the Galbra>path. I have built packages and uploaded them to main only to find later that they depend on non-free libraries that appeared free when I found them on the web page. (note that when the lib later shows up as a dependency, it is listed as non-free) . John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
Should Package Web page be changed for non-free (Re: glimpse on CD?)
I was surprised that glimpse was not on my Debian CD, so I downloaded it from the Debian web page. Until [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me it was non-free. What I find strange if that I managed to download it without realising it was non-free. I only *now* noticed that it's non-free by putting the cursor on the `Download it!' ftp link and seeing the non-free part in the path. Suggestions: The Debian web page's package search path does not hint to that: http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/stable/utils/glimpse.html Maybe there should be a non-free part of the path in there? Maybe the displayed page background should be changed for contrib and non-free packages to highlight that fact? It's strange that a package dependence on a non-free package is very much highlighted, but that the non-free package itself is not. For example, look at contrib package `latex2html'. In bright red, we see that it depends on non-free giftrans. However, click on giftrans and you'll see nowhere on it's own page that it's non-free! -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/
