On Fri, 2024-01-05 at 08:50 -0500, Mo Zhou wrote:
>
> On 1/5/24 03:48, Ansgar wrote:
> > On Thu, 2024-01-04 at 21:30 -0500, Mo Zhou wrote:
> > > Dependency of DebGPT. Will be maintained by deep learning team.
> > > It will go to the contrib section based on policy section 2.2.2,
> > > because this API client requires either
> > > (1) paied access to the proprietary backend
> > > (2) compatible open-source backend implementations are not yet
> > > available in the archive.
> > >
> > > I'm confused. Will this package have a "Depends: some-
> > > proprietary-
> > > openai-thing"? Can't it talk to a web service providing the API?
> No. All the dependencies are: python3-anyio,python3-distro,
> python3-httpx,python3-pydantic,python3-sniffio,python3-tqdm,
> python3-typing-extensions,python3:any.
> Can be satisfied using packages from main section.
>
> That said, this package does not work at all without (1) paid
> access token from OpenAI (2) open-source alternative
Then the package should be in main.
We do not require external software to be free as well, be that Web
APIs provided by Github, Twitter, or the NVidia firmware required for
Nouveau, microcode or storage/keyboard/sound/printer firmware required
for Linux, ... We would have to move pretty much everything to contrib
if that was the case.
Ansgar
