On 23 Mar 2006, David Kastrup uttered the following:
> Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 15, Miles Bader wrote:
>>>> In practice I guess it's just going to mean that most people end
>>>> up putting non-free in their sources.list, weakening the effect
>>>> of having a separation between "free" and "non-free" in the first
>>>> place, and more users end up confused because lack of hard
>>>> dependencies will mean the doc packages don't get installed.
>>>
>>> It may get worse. The maintainer of the GNU make package has just
>>> kicked out the documentation for good, offering no substituton
>>> whatsoever. [...]
>>
>> Why should a Debian maintainer feel compelled to package non-free
>> software?
>
> Why should he feel compelled to package anything at all?
To be honest, I don't feel compelled, no. I just happen to be
packaging them for a while now.
manoj
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