On Sun, 20 Jun 2010, Thomas Goirand wrote: > As I see it, php-recaptcha should be sent to non-free (which means > anything depending on it would go in contrib). I'd be happy to see > others expressing themselves here, in order to make sure I don't > hold an extreme view on this.
If php-recaptcha would have a Depends: (or Recommends:[1]) relationship on the daemon which provides this service if the daemon was packaged in Debian, then it belongs in contrib. If it wouldn't, then it can go into main. [All of this assuming that php-recaptcha itself is DFSG free.] non-free is for packages which Debian can distribute but do not meet the DFSG in themselves; packages which meet the DFSG do not belong there. All of the above has nothing to do with whether it is technically or socially responsible to package a package (or encourage its use) which has such has a heavy reliance on a network service for which Debian does not distribute (or worse, have any code for), however. The DFSG and our Social Contract are not Debian Policy, nor are they a replacement for good technical judgement. Don Armstrong 1: This is slightly more controversial, but I think that it is the majority view given that Recommends: are usually installed by default. -- Religion is religion, however you wrap it, and like Quell says, a preoccupation with the next world clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one. -- Richard K. Morgan "Broken Angels" p65 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100621153636.gk5...@teltox.donarmstrong.com
