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

[Joost Yervante Damad]

Hi Luca,


> [3] not that I checked with such printers, I'm only in touch with one
>     that needs a non-free firmware
>       http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466758#15

So you don't think that your usage of the package is more "contrib" 
then "main"?

Personally I find it a rather "grey" unclear situation. It seems the package 
can be used without any external files, yet in practice, for a lot of people 
it is only usable with external files..

Since the package is currently lives in main, I personally can live with how 
it is currently... the bug submitter seems to think differently though...

Bottom line is, that dependant on the hardware ,the package as it lives in 
main is usable or NOT.

Yet I think that it fits within the current practice in Debian.

I don't think the purpose of this bug is to change the interpretation of 
Debian policy... as Luca pointed out, people are doing that already heavily 
enough in Debian-Devel ;-)

Maybe we should mark the bug lenny-ignore ;)

Joost
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