Hi, I hereby appeal to the technical committee to reject to rule on this request, on the grounds that this is not a technical matter, and therefore falls outside the authority of the technical committee.
The question at hand is whether the statement "this package is not useful without non-free software, even though it will run without non-free software" is relevant wrt the requirement which is in Policy that no package in main must require any package outside of main to be built or executed. This is not a technical issue; it is simply a matter of interpretation of the social contract--which is clearly not a technical issue. The correct way to proceed would seem to be a ruling by a body authorized to make authoritative interpretations of the Social Contract, or, failing that (since I believe we have no such body), a General Resolution. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4
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