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From: Enrico Tassi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Dylan Thurston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi,
As I understand it, the sole purpose of this package is to download
non-free firmware. This fits into 'contrib', not 'main', since it
depends on non-free software for its ultimate operation. Packages
like this are given as an example of packages for contrib. From
Policy 2.2.2:
Hm, that
Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
>>>As I understand it, the sole purpose of this package is to download
>>>non-free firmware. This fits into 'contrib', not 'main', since it
>>>depends on non-free software for its ultimate operation. Packages
>>>like this are given as an example
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:40:01PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >>>As I understand it, the sole purpose of this package is to download
> >>>non-free firmware. This fits into 'contrib', not 'main', since it
> >>>depends on non-free
Hi,
Goswin von Brederlow schrieb:
But does it have any use without the non-free firmware? Only then can
you close an eye and let it stay in main due to its other functions.
Yes: Loading free firmware. Whether such a thing exists is largely
irrelevant; for the loader, it is just data, and we
Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Goswin von Brederlow schrieb:
>
>> But does it have any use without the non-free firmware? Only then can
>> you close an eye and let it stay in main due to its other functions.
>
> Yes: Loading free firmware. Whether such a thing exists is largel
On Tue, 30 May 2006, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > A downloader package is a bit of grey area; much like a typical
> > "contrib" package, it has some more-or-less hardcoded string that
> > points to non-free data; it does not, however, depend on anything
> > outside of main to function (since mai
This one time, at band camp, Raphael Hertzog said:
> Contrib is effectively meant for wrapper on non-free stuff. But contrib is
> really needed when the wrapper stuff is the *main purpose* of the package.
>
> In the case concerning us, we have 10 lines of DFSG-free code that can be
> used to downl
On Tue, 30 May 2006, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Can't you just ship those ten lines in contrib, and the rest in main?
> This may be archive bloat, but surely it's arch:all, so that minimizes
> the bloat at least. I am not over fond of the freer-than-free holy
> wars, but it does seem like this script i
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In fact, I go even further: I wish that the package use a low-priority
>> debconf question (defaulting to "do not download") to let the user execute
>> the wrapper at installation time. Of course, the question should warn the
>> user that he's about to do
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:26:56PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> No, it wasn't. As long as I can remember, packages which contained a
> small part of contrib material, which was not crucial for the function
> of the package as a whole, can go to main. Look at the policy:
>
> , 2.2.1 The main
Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:26:56PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
>> No, it wasn't. As long as I can remember, packages which contained a
>> small part of contrib material, which was not crucial for the function
>> of the package as a whole, can go to main. Lo
This one time, at band camp, Frank Küster said:
> Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Can't you just ship those ten lines in contrib, and the rest in main?
> > This may be archive bloat, but surely it's arch:all, so that minimizes
> > the bloat at least. I am not over fond of the freer-tha
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:26:56PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
>>> No, it wasn't. As long as I can remember, packages which contained a
>>> small part of contrib material, which was not crucial for the function
>
On Tue, 30 May 2006, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> Packages containing some contrib material, without which the package functions
> well, can indeed go in main AFAIK.
Yes. That's enough. If you agree on that why do you need after that to
find a complicated explication on why finally this is not OK ?
> Howe
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 12:56:05PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2006, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > Packages containing some contrib material, without which the package
> > functions well, can indeed go in main AFAIK.
>
> Yes. That's enough. If you agree on that why do you need after tha
On Thu, 08 Jun 2006, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> Because the package (as I understood it, I don't actually know the package)
> doesn't actually function at all for some people. That's not because they
> aren't interested in it, it's because they need non-free stuff to make it
> work.
Indeed and our job i
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 05:20:44PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jun 2006, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > Because the package (as I understood it, I don't actually know the package)
> > doesn't actually function at all for some people. That's not because they
> > aren't interested in it, it's
Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > I wasn't suggesting a new source package. I assumed (and this has been
>> > confirmed in this thread) that it is possible to create a contrib binary
>> > package from a source package in main.
>>
>> Where has this been confirmed?
>
> I've seen a respons
Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not at all, I am entirely looking at it from a user's perspective, in
> particular a user which doesn't want non-free software (those people are the
> reason contrib and non-free exist, so it seems appropriate to look especially
> at them).
No, there is a m
tag 368857 patch
thanks
* Enrico Tassi [Sun, 28 May 2006 13:44:57 +0200]:
Hello Enrico (and Victor),
> Could you please examine this bts entry and give me suggestions.
> Please CC me, since I'm not subscribed.
So there was a 20-message long thread in -mentors, but you were dropped
from CC when
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