On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:05:29AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Denis Barbier) writes: > > > >> Since tasksel is mainly used for the debian-installer, I don't > >> see the point in adding non-free entries into it, since we > >> don't ship them. > > > > I for one ran tasksel more than once in the past, and would be very > > surprised if it is seldom used outside of d-i. Moreover who said > > that tasksel was the only program reading these informations? > > Aptitude at least uses these fields. > > I think that free programs shall not refer to non-free ones.
Not sure if you make a distinction between programs and documentation, but Sven listed books. > IMO, it looks like a dependency on non-free programs even if > there is no such info in Depends/Recommends/Whatever. Until the Social Contract gets amended, your feeling does not reflect Debian opinion. Anyway non-free software seems not to be included in tasks. IMO it does still make sense to list these books, derived distros may include non-free software if they want. Denis
