On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:34:23AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040226 10:25]: > > Andreas Barth wrote: > > > * Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040226 08:55]: > > > > We cannot include it in Debian anyway, since it is non-free. If Debian > > > > stops distributing it but people will build ftp.non-free.org, what's > > > > the different from the users' perspective? A new apt-line. Oh > > > > horror... > > > > What do we gain from replacing non-free on Debian with > > > ftp.non-free.org? > > > ftp.non-free.org would not have to be maintained by Debian, contrary > > to ftp.debian.org. > > Is there someone to maintain ftp.non-free.org than, or is this just a > theoretical case?
I was trying to see what's needed and how to do it for non-free.org and have a discussion about this on this list a while ago, but the response was anything but enthusiastic. Seems the 'keep non-free' people don't want to talk about it, because they, uhm, don't want it to happen regardless of how easy to use the alternative would be, while the 'drop non-free' people don't want to contaminate themselves with non-free at all. If somebody is still interested, I'm happy to discuss things again though. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html
