On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 11:17:11AM -0700, Jason Self wrote: > Paul Tagliamonte said: > > > We can provide unofficial support for such things *outside* the project > > (as it currently is), but draw the line more clearly. > > Can you please clarify that? When I go to debian.org I find information that
Please read up on our social contract[1] that you linked to. It's actually quite clear about it: | The packages in these areas are not part of the Debian system > explicitly says Debian officially supports nonfree things [1]. I can also find > information and instructions -- again on debian.org -- about how to install > and > use these nonfree things, which seems to confirm that support. Furthermore I > can > even communicate with the official Debian staff about those things, and even > file bugs against them to have things fixed in it. > > I read the words but I'm not clear how this goes to "provide unofficial > support > for such things *outside* the project (as it currently is)." > > I take unofficial support outside the project to be something similar to how > Fedora does it: There are non-free things available but those repositories are > on a different website, run and managed by third parties, and the official > Fedora website doesn't steer people to them to or try to communicate that > these > are officially supported in any way. > > I wonder: If Debian were to increase the level of separation in this way would > it be enough to satisfy everyone? > > Maybe it could even be as simple as putting non-free and contrib (along with > supporting documentation about non-free things) on a different virtual host? > > Considering that Debian is in freeze for Wheezy (I think) this might be > something to consider for Wheezy+1? > > Keep in mind that a good compromise leaves no one happy. this extremist attitude is not welcome on a mailing list designed to foster collaboration. Please refrain from such blatant trolling here. > > [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-collab-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fsf-collab-discuss [1]: http://www.debian.org/social_contract -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <[email protected]> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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