On Mon, 07 Jan 2008, Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > Package: dpkg > Followup-For: Bug #31352 > > Since the Debian project apparently intends to continue distributing > non-free software, should this bug be marked as wontfix? > > Added to this is the fact that an APT frontend generally makes no > assumptions about whether something is free or not (consider a > third-party repository, which may contain non-free packages but not > conform to the Debian archive's naming convention), and also the fact > that dselect just isn't very widely used any more anyway.
I'm not sure it needs a wontfix though. I see two answers to this bug: - make sure that unknown packages are not displayed as Recommends/Suggests in dselect. That way when non-free is disabled, the user doesn't see them. - make sure that the Enhances: field is properly supported by dselect so that packages can use a reversed relationship to avoid speaking of the non-free part within the free part Although I agree that it's largely irrelevant to focus on dselect nowadays. The same principle should be used in aptitude and apt for instance. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
