On 4/5/06, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Apr 2006, Raul Miller stated: > > Has someone suggested that we should not build or distribute > > ndiswrapper? > > In Debian? Yes, I think that is exactly what we are talking > about.
With qualifications, I guess I can agree that that's what we're talking about. Here's the qualifications I currently think are appropriate: (1) That cipe is recognized as orphaned. This would be accompanied with a detailed set of reasons for this decision, and would not be instantaneous. The reasons include longstanding issues with the package, and the lack of attention that they have received. Orphaning the package would involve several steps. First, we should file bug reports detailing these issues. Second, we would wait for some period of time to see if the bug reports are enough to bring development on the package active. If not, then the cipe package would be removed from main. (2) Assuming that we establish that there's no free software development activities keeping ndiswrapper in main, we move it to contrib. It would be distributed from there, and thus not distributed "in Debian Main". > I hink that the Quality of implementation would suffer if we > disallow this DFSG-compliant software from being a part of Debian. I'm dubious of that assertion. I feel that, as stated, it's too vague to mean anything. -- Raul
