Stephen Gran <sg...@debian.org> writes: > This one time, at band camp, Russ Allbery said:
>> Alioth already hosts non-free packages (such as packaging repositories >> for Debian packaging for the non-free suite). I believe that the >> current understanding is that Alioth and its associated systems, such >> as the Git repository host, are not official debian.org systems in that >> sense, although they are in the debian.org domain. > I don't think this has been explicitly discussed and agreed to, I think > this has just sort of happened and not been explicitly stopped. I also > think that, largely, the result of that lack of process is OK, because > people involved in Debian software development are largely sensible > and/or largely want to do the right thing. To take an example that's close to home, the NVIDIA driver packaging is hosted on Alioth (and has been from before I was involved with it). I think it is quite unlikely that any of the R packages that Charles is working on are less free than the NVIDIA proprietary graphics drivers. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/877ge97rat....@windlord.stanford.edu
