I'm seeing a variety of objections where people are assuming that the debian web pages will not tell people how to access the non-free distribution.
Rather than try to delve into the rhetoric, let me simply point out that nothing prevents us from presenting both options on our web pages. Likewise, we can have people distributing cdroms which just have main as well as people distributing cdroms with contrib. While I'm addressing this subject, I'd like to point out that the main page has a link labeled "Download FTP" which doesn't address the more general issue of downloading from the net (for example: no list of aptable sources). I suspect that this lack is the real issue which people are trying to address. If there really were a policy that this shouldn't be on the web site, then perhaps it would be reasonable to require that apt include some partial information in this direction... but a stable package can never be as up-to-date as the web page (and we can presume that people who would be using the net to install Debian have net access). So if we do have such a policy (I'm not aware of one), I think it's wrong. -- Raul
