Hi, I've just rejected tik from Incoming[1] because it was targeted for main and as far as I can see depends on a non-free server to be useful. I've argued this before, for example when Adam wanted to upload his netscape-base (IIRC) to main. The package (like tik) was undoubtedly DFSG free (Adam wrote it), but without netscape it served no useful purpose. I think free software which depends on non-free software to be useful belongs in contrib. I think this is the spirit of the policy manual, but it's certainly not explicitly stated there.
Note: the problem here is the *exclusively* non-free nature of required software; if there was a free server to connect to (e.g. with samba, you don't _need_ to connect to a M$ server), I wouldn't have a problem with it being in main. So, opinions? [1] I chose to reject it, because I'm, personally, not willing to put it in main. Guy and Richard are welcome and well within their rights to do otherwise, if they disagree, i.e. the rejection is just an indication of my decision, and I speak for no one but myself (as ever). -- James
