[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#679596: libghc-github-prof: Should be in contrib

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Samstag, den 30.06.2012, 02:23 +0000 schrieb shawn:
> Package: libghc-github-prof
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 2.2.2
> 
> This entire source package depends on an external, non-free service (github)
> to be useful, therefore it should be in contrib, not main.

this is a valid point and likewise affects github-backup, the only user
of haskell-github.

I’m worried about (hypothetical) programs that use github-backup, but
only as one feature of many. Assume git-annex were to use
haskell-github, just because of that noone would argue putting git-annex
into contrib, but a package in main cannot depend on a package in
contrib. Also, if the code was not separated into a separate libray,
noone would worry.

Greetings,
Joachim
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