Le Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 03:47:13PM +0200, Ole Streicher a écrit : > > After lunch, someone pointed out that the policy only requires that > packages that download *software* need to go to contrib. Since my one > would download *data* only, it would be probably suitable for main.
Hi Ole, I doubt that the intention of the policy is to distinguish data and software here. Also, the current interpretation of the DFSG is that data is software. Altogether, in the case of your package, I think that it is a matter of taste. In my point of view, there is nothing wrong putting it in contrib, to represent that the access to the data is not as easy as if it were distributed inside the package. One of the points of Free software is that is can not be taken away from the user, and if one has a full copy of the Debian archive, it is possible to rely on all the programs and data in the main section. For downloader packages, however, they can become useless at any time, and the user has no control over this. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
