Control: tag -1 + wontfix Control: severity -1 wishlist Hi Michael,
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:05:16PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > That's a nice readme, but it isn't a license to circumvent debian > policy. The "right" approach is to separate the matlab-support source > package into matlab-support-free (providing your path-defining -dev > package) and a matlab-support-contrib (providing the matlab wrappers) > source packages. In principle you are, of course, right. However, in practical terms this would not change much. Right now, guaranteed freedoms in Debian main are not in danger. matlab-support-dev does not runtime-depend on anything outside main. Moreover, the matlab-support source package does not build-depend on anything outside main. Splitting the source package has the sole benefit of a cleaner separation, at the practical cost of another (virtually empty) source package, increasing the workload of all folks that need to touch it, size of the packages file, another tiny bit of mirror space... Two additional pointers that make me believe this view is shared by more DDs than just Yarik and me: 1. This setup has been outlined in the ITP already http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/01/msg00124.html Despite that fact that a few people commented, nobody objected this approach. 2. README file and package placement in main have been in effect from day 0. ftp-masters had no problem to accept this for inclusion. You are still correct, but without additional evidence that this move is unavoidable, I am not planing on doing the split. Michael -- Michael Hanke http://mih.voxindeserto.de
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