Ramses Rodriguez Martinez wrote: > i think a Debian package is not allowed to use nor assume external, possibly > non-GPL tools outside the Debian repository. In fact, if current alien package > makes use of software installable outside dpkg and the latter is not > compatible with GPL, the package should be moved to "contrib", shouldn't be?
If alien required software that was not in Debian to do *anything* useful, then it would be unacceptably buggy to be in Debian. However, if alien has a completly optional, and frankly, utterly obscure and basically never used feature that requires software not in Debian, that's a completly different matter. So your argument that alien be moved to contrib is patently absurd, as is this bug report. -- see shy jo
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