Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well parroted. Since I can see you don't understand the difference > between main and contrib, I will point you to it. Please see 2.2.1 and > 2.2.2 in policy. If you diff the first set of bullet points that lay > out criteria for main and contrib, you'll see that the only differnece > is that packages in main : > "must not require a package outside of main for compilation or execution > (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends", "Recommends", or > "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main package)"
This is not a complete list. It may not require a package outside of main for compilation or execution. One consequence of that, is that it must not Depend on such packages. But this is not the *only* consequence, it is merely the one being spelled out. It is certainly not true that a package in contrib can be moved to main just be removing the package dependencies. The further question is: can it be run without the non-free software? I still am not sure, having not yet received a complete answer to the factual questions I raised. (Adam gave recently a partial answer, but I'm still not clear on the facts to which he was alluding.) > Do you see a Depends, Recommends, or Build-Depends on non-free or > contrib software somewhere in the ndiswrapper source or binary packages? > I don't. So why is there an argument for changing it? Since there is > no foundation in policy, do the benefits or technical merits (of which > exactly none have been presented) outweigh ignoring a rather clear > statement from policy? The question is not whether there is such a dependency declared; the question is whether the software is useful without the use of non-free software. At first blush, it looks as if the only purpose of the software is to run NDIS drivers. So the question is: are all NDIS drivers non-free software? (Actually, the question is slightly more complex, so please see the previous message in which I gave a more full version of that question.) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
