[Mageia-dev] packaging amrwb ?

Wed Jun 20 15:18:59 CEST 2012

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Oliver Burger
+<oliver.bgr at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> Am 20.06.2012 14:54, schrieb Guillaume Rousse:
+>
+>> Le 20/06/2012 14:26, Oliver Burger a écrit :
+>>>
+>>> Am 20.06.2012 14:15, schrieb Claire Robinson:
+>>>>
+>>>> I don't want to add fuel to the fire but just out of interest, why is it
+>>>> that we don't allow nonfree-tainted in Tainted?
+>>>>
+>>>> I understand that open source purists may not want it but are we
+>>>> catering to a minority and ignoring a majority?
+>>>
+>>> Well, above all we are an OpenSource project and one of our most central
+>>> values being an OpenSource project is promoting OpenSource software.
+>>
+>> I wonder why you can tolerate stuff as 'automatic skype downloader' or
+>> its flash equivalent being in the distribution then.
+>>
+>> This kind of code need constant efforts on packager side to keep them
+>> up-to-date, whereas even the most clueless end user could easily
+>> download and install it manually. The ratio between the developper time
+>> spent and the added value for end user is quite low.
+>>
+>> On the other hand, this codec issue is totally obscure for any end user,
+>> and the skills needed to rebuild the whole software chain is way out of
+>> scope for the average mageia target population.
+>>
+>> So, it would be far more consistent to either follow the debian way of
+>> life, and get rid of flash and skype downloaders, or to make life easier
+>> for end-users, just by adding this miserable faac package in less
+>> problematic repository.
+>
+> Actiually we have two repos containing free software (core and tainted) and
+> one repo conatining nonfree software.
+> We have two repos not tainted by patents (core and nonfree) and one other
+> (tainted).
+> So either we redefine something about our repos or we add a fourth one or we
+> don't build that kind of software.
+
+Maybe we can track of the forbidden packages on the wiki, with the
+reason, and if at some point we list enough non free tainted packages,
+add the media.
+But in this case it is more that non free and tainted, it does not
+allow us to distribute it.
+