Laszlo Kajan <lka...@debian.org> writes: > This email is to continue the discussion about free packages that depend > on big (e.g. >400MB) free data outside 'main'. These packages apparently > violate policy 2.2.1 [0] for inclusion in 'main' because they require > software outside the 'main' area to function. They do not violate point > #1 of the social contract [1], which requires non-dependency on non-free > components. For these big data packages, policy seems to be overly > restrictive compared to the social contract, leading to seemingly > unfounded rejection from 'main'.
> * In case the social contract indeed allows such packages to be in > 'main' (and policy is overly restrictive), how could it be ensured that > the packages are accepted? Yes, I agree. Although we should probably talk with ftp-master about whether they would like the data to just be packaged and uploaded as a regular package. > * What is the procedure within Debian to elicit a decision about the > handling of such packages in terms of archive area? Discussion on > d-devel, followed by policy change? Asking the policy team to clarify > policy for such packages? Technical committee? Discussing it on debian-devel seems right, but I would also draw it to ftp-master's attention, since they're the people who have to worry about archive size). We can easily move on to modifying Policy if there's a consensus to let packages like that pull the data down from some external source. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8738uhb3ba....@windlord.stanford.edu