Barak Pearlmutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay - that's not a bug because they're just little harmless > snippets which are informative and interesting, are not functional, > are *removable*, and merely accompany the package but do not > constitute an integral part of it. By long-standing Debian > tradition their inclusion is considered reasonable and proper, and > not a violation of policy. Since this is the case, the burden of > proof is upon you to demand such an serious change in Debian > practice. Certainly their removal goes far beyond the GFDL-related > consensus reached by debian-legal, which was concerned with > non-removable materials.
And for whatever it's worth, as long as I'm maintaining the packages, these files will almost certainly not be removed unless there's some overwhelmingly convincing reason, like debian-legal tells me it needs to be done, there's a successful General Resolution passed on a relevant topic, or they're removed from the upstream... In any case, presuming debian-legal becomes satisfied that I don't need to do anything about these files, I'll either mark this bug wonfix, or more likely, close it. (Just so there's no confusion, I am planning to accomodate whatever we decide with respect to the GFDLed files.) -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4
