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Re: [PROPOSED] Change package relations policy to remove references to non-free from main



On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 02:03:48AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> I would encourage people to reread sections 4 and 5 of the social
> contract.  Debian *acknowledges* the existence of non-free software,
> and "We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of programs
> that don't conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines."  So are we
> going to make life difficult for them by removing the suggests
> information?

The proposal is not about removing the suggests information -- it's about
casting it into a different (cleaner) form.

> P.S. Should the debian-keyring package now be split, with the gpg
> keyring placed in main, and the pgp keyring in contrib?

Yes.

-- 
Raul


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