On Mon, 07 Jan 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Since the Debian project apparently intends to continue distributing > > non-free software, should this bug be marked as wontfix? > > The point is not even wanting to distribute non-free software or > not. Even if Debian wasn't "distributing non-free software" (which is > highly debatable), tools have no reason to blacklist repositories that > do. "Our priorities are our users blah blah blah".
Of course, blacklisting repositories is not something acceptable. However, before closing this bug, it makes sense to verify that dselect doesn't show packages in Suggests: or Recommends: if they don't exist according to its list of packages. That way, when non-free is not used, non-free packages are not shown, which seems to be the right behaviour. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
