Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In fact, I go even further: I wish that the package use a low-priority >> debconf question (defaulting to "do not download") to let the user execute >> the wrapper at installation time. Of course, the question should warn the >> user that he's about to download non-free stuff. > > Can't you just ship those ten lines in contrib, and the rest in main? > This may be archive bloat, but surely it's arch:all, so that minimizes > the bloat at least. I am not over fond of the freer-than-free holy > wars, but it does seem like this script is exactly the sort of thing > that contrib was designed for.
No, it wasn't. As long as I can remember, packages which contained a small part of contrib material, which was not crucial for the function of the package as a whole, can go to main. Look at the policy: ,---- 2.2.1 The main category | Every package in main must comply with the DFSG (Debian Free Software | Guidelines). | | In addition, the packages in main | | * must not require a package outside of main for compilation or | execution (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends", | "Recommends", or "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main | package), `---- This explicitly does *not* mention "Suggests". Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
