Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think i agree with you in principle, but what do you propose to do with the > non-free packages ? just remove them from debian disks ?
They are not on the Debian disks now. > What will happen to them, would they still be able to use the BTS for their > packages ? Or should they make provision for having their own apt-gettable > repository for people to download. I think not everyone has the ressources to > do that. I'm sure there is a great number of people out there who love non-free software so much that they would happily keep a repository alive. > If that will happen, the non-free packages will not have the > guarantee of quality that they have now, and this will result in > people downloading non-free packages from who knows where and may > causes bugs, security problems, name space clashes, policy > violation, etc ... We already have all those problems because of non-free. The only program on my system that does not more or less always function nicely and reliably is Netscape.
