Bug#948734: The package should be in contrib section

[Paul Wise]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:42:53 -0500 Olek Wojnar wrote:

> Could you please explain your rationale? The way I read Policy, I don't
> see a problem. To clarify: the package is not installing via snap
> because of a licensing issue that prohibits distribution (such as
> Flash), that is just to prevent needless transitions in Debian [1].

Policy states that "the packages in main must not require or recommend
a package outside of main for compilation or execution" so a dependency
on the snap at install time is not allowed.

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#the-main-archive-area

> Nothing (except saving a LOT of work) prevents any of this from going
> into main.

Probably time to remove the package from Debian entirely then.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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