On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:30:33PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:50:20PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:34:44PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > > I guess the point was that GNOME managed to use debbugs for them, so why > > > shouldn't the prospective non-free-.debs-project do that, too? > > > > Another instance is still not as good. You couldn't reassign a bug from > > a non-free package to a library in main that is depends on, for example. > > You could mark it forwarded. We do the same thing with Debian BTS bugs > which are really about bugs in upstream software. > > I don't see what's so difficult here.
You could do that. That's nowhere near as good as what we have now though. So the list of disadvantages of removing non-free is growing while the list of advantages remains small and almost unstated. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
