[Pkg-mailman-hackers] [Mailman-cabal] Re: removal from Debian

[John Darrington]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 01:19:38AM +0200, Pierre-Elliott B??cue wrote:
> 
> Being part of GNU only means two things?: being a free software and
> being part of a GNU/Linux system. It doesn't bind any component one to
> another.


That is not strictly true.  Being part of GNU also means that the maintainer
agrees to develop it according the the GNU guidelines.  Part of that means
agreeing to make it work well with other components of GNU.

See https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html for more information.

If other organisations, such as Debian, have technical difficulties which
hinder their ability to distribute a GNU program, then we would ask the
maintainer to help resolve those issues,  but it is not the maintainer's
first priority.

So.  Not all GNU programs are part of Debian, and not all parts of Debian
are GNU programs.    That is unlikely to change.