On Tue, 2025-04-22 at 22:59 +0200, Ansgar 🙀 wrote: > > b) Removal of image recognition software (like opencv[2])
Not likely. I'm the uploader of src:opencv. This is a pretty large library that contains lots of functionalities that does not require a "model" to function. For opencv, it is at most adding one more file for the +dfsg file exclusion, or spliting the model to maybe a non-free package and set Recommends to pull the package. The thing is similar for src:nltk (a natural language processing toolkit). It's models are not packaged, and I marked the bug requesting the model package as wontfix. This is also a large library where lots of useful functions do not need a model to run. There are lots of software upstreams who do not release model inside the source code tarball. Instead, downloading is triggered when the user calls the API that relies on the particular model, and calling the model is usually not the sole functionality of the software. As explained by the "Scope" part of the original proposal email, traditional software written in C++/Python like OpenCV is not involved. What involved is just the "model" file itself.
