On 03/21/2013 02:02 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 03/21/2013 11:52 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> I think the outcome of moving a package that falls in the "requires >> external stuff" from main to contrib would rarely qualify as silly. >> >> Take for example the twitter perl packages. The API is changing (of >> course that is something outside of Debian's control,). As a >> consequence, those packages are now up for removal from testing (since >> they're going to be broken for an entire stable release): >> http://bugs.debian.org/703257 >> >> If instead those packages were in contrib, which is of course >> considered not supported, if/when those external interfaces break, >> then at least the user knew upfront that they were taking a risk that >> their unsupported software may someday break. Part of the nuance is >> living up to user expectations. > > Would you put something like Pidgin in contrib? And to make sure you > wont dismiss my point and answer that it has support for XMPP wich is an > open protocol: and what if it had only support for the non-free > protocols, like only MSN, AIM, Yahoo and such, and zero support for the > open protocols like IRC and XMPP?
I withdraw this, pidgin-facebookchat is a better example... :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/514aa3a4.3080...@debian.org
