"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 16:15:51 +0000, Stuart Ballard wrote: > > Now, I thought that ssh (at least openSSH) was non-US/main - wasn't that > > kind of the point of using openSSH rather than what we had before? > > Yes. Potato's current "ssh" package is OpenSSH and is free.
Then why is vrms reporting it? Is this a vrms bug? > > And dnsutils - why on earth should I need non-free software to query dns > > servers? > > dnsutils is built from the bind source, which contains non-free code from > RSA labs dealing with secure DNS. I believe arrangements have been made with > the ISC that will make / have made it possible for bind's source to go in > main again. Cool. > > In other words, a very brief summary of the problem (with a reference to > > the license), a list of alternatives, and the possible problems you > > might encounter with each alternative. > > This would be a useful list to have - perhaps you've found your way to > contribute to Debian? Well, there are a *lot* of packages in non-free, so I think the way to do it would be on a package-by-package basis, arranged by Policy-with-a-capital-Pee :) I guess I could subscribe to the policy list and suggest this... My thought would be having a standardized file in /usr[/share]/doc/packagename for every package in non-free, called something like README.Debian-nonfree.gz, containing this information in a standardized format (like the changelog.Debian already has). Maybe another one called README.Debian-nonus.gz for non-US packages too. If this happened I'd certainly consider submitting the trivial changes to enable vrms to make use of this file ;) Stuart.
