On 2004-01-03 02:16:15 +0000 Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>
wrote:
One effect of removing non-free from Debian [...]
This is confusing. non-free is not in Debian, so it cannot be removed
from it.
Both of those are bad for Debian -- reimplementing infrastructure
sucks up
time and energy of maintainers on work that doesn't benefit free
software;
Support for non-free already does this, although we disagree about how
much.
and reducing the available support for our users who need non-free
software
makes their lives more painful, or encourages them to switch to a
different
distribution.
Or it may encourage them to move to free software, making their lives
easier, especially if we provide good migration help as suggested by
some current non-free users.
[...]
One way of demonstrating that the effort is trivial is to setup all
that
infrastructure.
Besides the obvious absurdity, I suspect that some of the suggestors
will vote against even if this is done. People who want it should set
it up when it is needed.
People who disagree with the use of a separate non-free repository
surely
wouldn't be arguing for its creation, though, no?
Yes, apparently.
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