Processed: Re: apt-file: broken. curl is needed

2006-02-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 307833 tech-ctte Bug#307833: apt-file: broken. curl is needed Bug#311329: apt-file depends IMHO on curl Bug#323970: apt-file should depend on curl Bug#324153: apt-file depends on curl which is not mentioned Bug#325102: apt-file should depend on

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Anthony Towns writes (Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main): After the discussions so far, I'm inclined towards the following two views of our policy on this: * first, that dependencies are one way -- programs depend on libraries, but libraries don't depend on the programs that use

Bug#307833: Processed: Re: apt-file: broken. curl is needed

2006-02-28 Thread Ian Jackson
I've taken a look at the bug logs and I'm very disappointed with the maintainer's lack of engagement. There seem to be a lot of people who are interested in helping maintain this package. Would any of the keen people we see involved in this bug report consider contesting the maintainership of

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Ian Jackson wrote: What, then, is the intended meaning when the policy manual talks about `wrappers' for non-free programs ? (Feel free to say that the wording is suboptimal and shouldn't be read so closely.) Wrapper like installation wrappers: free code that downloads a

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:14:22AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Anthony Towns writes (Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main): After the discussions so far, I'm inclined towards the following two views of our policy on this: * first, that dependencies are one way -- programs depend on

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes (Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main): What's so different between my own non-free program and my own non-free card which requires a non-free driver to work with ? You didn't make the card. (Unless you want to argue that ndiswrapper is for helping hardware developers

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Raul Miller wrote: On 2/28/06, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Raul Miller wrote: On 2/28/06, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's so different between my own non-free program and my own non-free card which requires a