On Tue, 30 May 2006, Bas Wijnen wrote: > Packages containing some contrib material, without which the package functions > well, can indeed go in main AFAIK.
Yes. That's enough. If you agree on that why do you need after that to find a complicated explication on why finally this is not OK ? > However, if I understand the situation > correctly, this package is completely useless without the non-free firmware if > you happen to have a device which needs it. The fact that the package is > useful for other people is quite irrelevant: the download script is useless > for them anyway, irrespective of their attitude towards non-free software. No it's not irrelevant. You need to consider the package as a whole, it's not a package in one situation and another in a second situation. The split is not justified by any technical need and thus your reasoning is purely ideological. Technical reasons say the split is rather useless: creating a new source package from scratch for a 10 line script is waste of our resources. So the decision is entirely up to the maintainer. He can integrate it in the main package. However if he decides to create a dedicated package for the wrapper, then he needs to create a new contrib source package. > Then again, this sounds pretty much like a thing for debian-legal. :-) Not at all. We all know what is DFSG and what is not in this case. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
