On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:13:11AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:51:07PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > Mutt uses debbugs, and isn't a project of the magnitude of GNOME. > > Which still doesn't make it comparable to non-free.
You won't find an example which fits perfectly for non-free. > On the one hand, it's much more cohesive: instead of dozens of unrelated > packages you have mut. > > On the other hand, it's a development project, not a distribution of > stuff available from elsewhere. So what? We're talking about setting up debbugs for a moderatly-sized project. Whether it's the best Free email client or a random collection of non-free software does not matter that much *technically*. Anyway, the examples of a huge amount of backports done by various people, countless custom distributions based on Debian, sub-projects partly maintained outside debian and even the development of a whole new architecture which requires considerable amounts of changes to the core packaging tools on Alioth (amd64) are enough evidence that one does not need to depend on auric, master and klecker to do work for Debian. In my humble opinion, of course. By the time non-free got created, maintaining packages outside of Debian was not trivial (if done at all). This *has* changed, and can be done much more easily today. It still takes some (maybe a lot of) work of course. To get back to doing something productive: What timeframe would you consider adequate for the duplication of reasonable support for non-free outside of the Debian servers? Michael
