On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:08:50PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:30:48PM +0100, Remi Vanicat wrote: > > The problem is not that user consider debian or not, it is that some > > of them need non-free. > > The question is not whether users need non-free or not, but whether they > need non-free *to be on debian.org* or not.
Don't trivialise "on debian.org" to just an /etc/apt/sources.list entry though. The advantage IMHO to having Debian host non-free packages is quality control such as 1. Bug tracking though bugs.debian.org; 2. Developers vetted and a GPG trust path guaranteed through the new maintainer process; 3. Non-free packages must meet same Debian policy as free packages, etc. Some here claim that #1 is trivial to replicate. I'm not convinced about the other points though. I see other people such as David Schleef who are not registered developers volunteering to help. "Additional developers, such as myself, would be willing to work on non-free packages, *provided that they are outside of Debian*." That's nice but we don't have any trust path to Dave or verification of his skills etc. Ultimately a separate non-free.org will not be as useful. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
