Le Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 01:21:51AM -0400, Michael Gilbert a écrit : > > Think about it this way. Say the remote firmware files that getweb > currently fetches were instead put in a package called > foo2zjs-nonfree. That package would (of course) have to be located in > non-free, and any packages depending on that would need to be located > in at least contrib, right?
Dear Michael, having a foo2zjs-nonfree package would allow other packages that specifically need the drivers downloaded by getweb to depend on it and make sure that if they are installed, the drivers are present. This is a typical contrib or non-free situation. In contrary, if the foo2zjs package allows to download non-free drivers manually, and does not do it automatically at installation, and if no package depending on foo2zjs need that getweb has been executed, then the requirement that no Debian package depends on anything outside the main Debian archive is satisfied. I think that this helps to draw the line: to consider that what matters is not whether a program can download non-free software or not, but whether the result of the installation of a package is that non-free software has been installed. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
