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

Steffen Joeris steffen.joeris at skolelinux.de
Sun Oct 26 07:03:46 UTC 2008


Hi
> I understand your sentiment, and it is indeed a "grey" area situation. If I
> take policy literary, I think this package is fine in main, but it is not
> as simple...
>
> In order to get this bug rolling (and lenny released ;-) ), can you all
> live with me splitting up the package in two packages:
>
> 1) foo2zjs: this contains everything, and lives in mains, which Suggests:
> 2) foo2zjs-contrib: this contains getweb
>
> I know a package with just a script is not nice, but it is more in the
> spirit of the debian policy indeed.
I would like to hear Michael's word on it, since he was the more active one 
during the last uploads. In fact, I am happy to give up maintainership, as 
this package (and the tiresome discussion around it) is really no fun.

Maybe Michael would like to step in and help out maintaining the package?

Cheers
Steffen
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