This one time, at band camp, Michael Gilbert said: > >>and since getweb depends on non-free software and is a part of the > >>package, foo2zjs as a whole is considered to depend on non-free > >>software. > > >No. getweb *downloads* and copies some non-free software, it does not > >depend on it. > > does getweb function correctly if the external files are unable to be > downloaded?
That's not a very useful question - does a web browser function 'correctly' when it gets a 404? It depends entirely on what you mean by correctly, and that starts to feel like there's no bright line test for it. That being said, packages that exist solely to download external non-free content have traditionally been considered contrib material. If this is just a helper script that nothing else in the package uses, it seems perfectly fine to me to keep it in main, but ship the script in examples/ or something. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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