Bug#310496: Serious policy violation; should be removed from Debian

2005-05-25 Thread Yavor Doganov
On 2005-05-26 00:13:45 +0300 Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your bug report is rather vague. Maybe it is, as the existence of contrib and non-free sections. With which part of this policy does pptview not agree? I meant the footnote to 2.2.3: It is possible that there are policy

Bug#310496: Serious policy violation; should be removed from Debian

2005-05-25 Thread Shaun Jackman
2.2.3 The non-free section Packages must be placed in non-free or non-US/non-free if they are not compliant with the DFSG or are encumbered by patents or other legal issues that make their distribution problematic. In addition, the packages in non-free and non-US/non-free * must not be so buggy

Bug#310496: Serious policy violation; should be removed from Debian

2005-05-23 Thread Yavor Doganov
Package: pptview Version: 8.0-2 Severity: important The presence of this package in Debian violates the policy, namely Section 2.2.3[1]. There should be a decision made to include this package in the pool (on a case-by-case basis), but I couldn't find out any discussion on -legal or elsewhere. I