Dear Russ! Thank you for getting back to me.
On 23/04/13 18:48, Russ Allbery wrote: > Laszlo Kajan <lka...@debian.org> writes: > >> This email is to continue the discussion about free packages that depend >> on big (e.g. >400MB) free data outside 'main'. These packages apparently >> violate policy 2.2.1 [0] for inclusion in 'main' because they require >> software outside the 'main' area to function. They do not violate point >> #1 of the social contract [1], which requires non-dependency on non-free >> components. For these big data packages, policy seems to be overly >> restrictive compared to the social contract, leading to seemingly >> unfounded rejection from 'main'. > >> * In case the social contract indeed allows such packages to be in >> 'main' (and policy is overly restrictive), how could it be ensured that >> the packages are accepted? > > Yes, I agree. Although we should probably talk with ftp-master about > whether they would like the data to just be packaged and uploaded as a > regular package. Ftp-master was included in the initial thread [1], but they did not (yet) respond, and I started to feel that it may be impolite to flood their inbox with an issue like this. Since perhaps they alone can not decide about it. So yes, ftp-master is included in the mail once again. [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2013-April/019282.html >> * What is the procedure within Debian to elicit a decision about the >> handling of such packages in terms of archive area? Discussion on >> d-devel, followed by policy change? Asking the policy team to clarify >> policy for such packages? Technical committee? > > Discussing it on debian-devel seems right, but I would also draw it to > ftp-master's attention, since they're the people who have to worry about > archive size). We can easily move on to modifying Policy if there's a > consensus to let packages like that pull the data down from some external > source. How to gauge that consensus? Laszlo -- 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/5176f5f5.5040...@debian.org
