[Foo2zjs-maintainer] Bug#449497: Bug#449497: foo2zjs: application depends on non-free firmware

[Steffen Joeris]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 04:16:50 pm you wrote:
> i believe that the proper solution is to split the package into
> foo2zjs and foo2zjs-contrib -- where the contrib package will have
> only the non-free getweb stuff.
Nah, a package split with only this script in it would be overkill.
The script is offered for convenience and so is the hannah-foo2zjs package.
I am also not convinced that the getweb script is enough to state that the 
package should be contrib. It does not depend on any software directly. It is 
just a nice method of getting the firmware and integrating it into the system 
properly. By all means, ask debian-legal about it, but then please also check 
other packages in the debian archive, which might do the same. I am sure that 
there are other "downloader" packages, which are way more obvious and 
problematic than foo2zjs (following your definition of contrib that is :) ).

Cheers
Steffen
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