Package: conky
Version: 1.8.0-1
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
Thanks for adopting my favorite system monitor! :-)
I've just found out that the package has been moved to contrib, though!
:-(
After digging into the ITA bug (#536320), it seems to me that the
only reason why the source package was moved away from main, is
that *one* binary package build-depends on nvidia-settings (which
is in contrib, since, I suppose, is useless without the nvidia
proprietary drivers...).
I don't want to use a package that directly or indirectly
(build-)depends on non-free packages!
I don't even have contrib in my sources.list, since it opens up
the possibility that I install packages that download non-free stuff
off the net, and so forth...
If I understand correctly:
* only one conky feature (build-)depends on nvidia stuff
* this feature has been added to conky recently (hence it was
not present in previous versions packaged for Debian main)
* this feature is only useful to users that use the non-free nvidia
drivers
* this feature is only present in amd64 and i386 architectures
For all these reasons, I think it's a shame that conky has been moved
to contrib just for that new feature.
Please, please disable nvidia-related stuff in the conky Debian package,
so that the package may stop build-depending on nvidia-settings and thus
may be moved back to main!
The few users that want to take advantage of the nvidia-related new
feature, may locally rebuild the conky package (just like they often
rebuild nvidia modules...).
I hope that I clearly expressed my reasoning and that you agree with me.
Please move conky back to main! ;-)
Thanks for your time.
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