Re: Post-Lenny discussion on packages with external (potentially non-free) dependencies

2009-02-22 Thread Luk Claes
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 17 février 2009 à 00:31 -0500, Michael S. Gilbert a écrit : 2. Components of the package may stop working in the midst of a stable release's lifetime This is a problem that affects much more than this kind of packages. All packages relying on an external

Re: Post-Lenny discussion on packages with external (potentially non-free) dependencies

2009-02-17 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Michael S. Gilbert wrote: Dear All, First of all, congratulations on getting the Lenny release out the door! I understand that it was a lot of work, and you're probably looking forward to at least somewhat of a break. So I don't want to treat this problem with too much urgency (yet), but I

Re: Post-Lenny discussion on packages with external (potentially non-free) dependencies

2009-02-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 17 février 2009 à 00:31 -0500, Michael S. Gilbert a écrit : 2. Components of the package may stop working in the midst of a stable release's lifetime This is a problem that affects much more than this kind of packages. All packages relying on an external service are affected. For

Post-Lenny discussion on packages with external (potentially non-free) dependencies

2009-02-16 Thread Michael S. Gilbert
Dear All, First of all, congratulations on getting the Lenny release out the door! I understand that it was a lot of work, and you're probably looking forward to at least somewhat of a break. So I don't want to treat this problem with too much urgency (yet), but I would like to get a dialog

Re: Post-Lenny discussion on packages with external (potentially non-free) dependencies

2009-02-16 Thread Luk Claes
Michael S. Gilbert wrote: Summary of the problem: Some packages such as foo2zjs, pciutils, ttf-mathematica4.1, etc. have components that download files external to the Debian archives (from the internet) at runtime, which is problematic in many ways. If possible, the to be downloaded data