On Jun 21, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > What you have proposed will end up about half way to three quarters of the > way to that full statement, you might as well finish the job, and really > that is what the vote will be about, not about a 'archive split'. > > Incidently, as an aside.. to anyone who thinks that this would just be a > simple creation of a new host.. No, it isn't. In discussions it's pretty > much come out that it would be run by a different ftpmaster team, it would > have it's own upload arranagment and it's own mirror arranagement, we'd > need to find sponsorship and hardware to run it, etc. APT would no longer > list non-free components and would make no mention that they even > existed, etc. > > Sadly I fear that there will rage a whole debate on if non-free.debian.org > represents enough of a difference from dists/stable/non-free. I would also > direct everyone to read the -private thread that came up some time ago on > this very subject.
I suspect that moving non-free and contrib to a separate host would likely begin a process of the "contribization" (for lack of a better term) of Debian... it's fragmentation that Debian doesn't need. (IMHO this proposal is a amendment to the Social Contract; it should be clearly marked as such. I also note that our beloved Constitution allows the amendment of the Social Contract by a simple majority, which seems awfully bizarre to me...) Chris -- ============================================================================= | Chris Lawrence | You have a computer. Do you have Linux? | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.linux-m68k.org/index.html | | | | | Grad Student, Pol. Sci. | Do you want your bank to snoop? | | University of Mississippi | http://www.defendyourprivacy.com/ | =============================================================================
