[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#679596: libghc-github-prof: Should be in contrib
shawn
shawnlandden at gmail.com
Sun Jul 1 00:02:13 UTC 2012
On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 19:54 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> > <http://lists.debian.org/20111204195557.GA11437@gnu.kitenet.net>
>
> This seemed a good opportunity to expand that into a BoF, so I've
> submitted this: https://penta.debconf.org/penta/submission/dc12/event/931
>
> classifying and exposing network dependencies
>
> Does youtube-dl belong in contrib if it depends on Youtube.com to
> function? What about xfce4-weather-plugin, with its less obvious
> dependency on a hardcoded Weather.com API key? What about flickrbackup,
> which obviously relies on a specific web site, but in a way that helps
> users avoid being locked into that site?
is this still the case, because if so, I would be happy to switch it
over to using weather.gov and/or some other NOAA source directly for US
weather. (this is the source for 99.9% of US weather data anyways)
>
> A first step to resolving these questions is agreeing on package (or
> debtags) metadata that exposes network API dependencies, and classifies
> them along a spectrum from no dependence on specific servers, through
> default servers for open protocols, to dependency on proprietary
> services.
>
The "reimplamentation of the github API" argument you put forward just
doesn't pan out. Sure I could re-implement the windows API too, (and
Wine does so), but that doesn't mean that free windows software that
DOESN'T work with wine could just be put in main willy-nilly.
The desert Island test here is certainly the clearest here, if the
software requires non-free software in order to be functional it belongs
in contrib.
--
-Shawn Landden
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