[Foo2zjs-maintainer] Bug#449497: foo2zjs: application depends on non-free firmware
Joost Yervante Damad
andete at debian.org
Sat Oct 25 12:06:47 UTC 2008
Hello,
README.Debian of "foo2zjs" provides the following text:
<cut>
foo2zjs for Debian
---------------
Please understand that I had to delete some files which the author is
still providing, because I got no source code for them.
This is necessary to get the package into Debian main.
If you really need these programs, please freel free to download
them from http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz on your own risk.
In addition to that I also deleted all binary files (.e.g. .icm).
(Type "wget http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz").
Then run the following commands:
tar -xvvzf foo2zjs.tar.gz
cd foo2zjs
make
</cut>
Is this actually needed to make the program work? Then it clearly doesn't
belong in the main section of Debian, as main is not supposed to depend on
external stuff.
If the program works fine without this, in my opinion this bug should be
downgraded again, and marked wontfix, as non of the non-free files (neither
the firmware files, nor icm profiles, ...) are actually contained in the
Debian package.
Greetings, Joost Damad
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