[Mageia-dev] About bug 6676

Pierre-Malo Deniélou pierre-malo.denielou at rhul.ac.uk
Thu Feb 21 15:04:31 CET 2013


On 21/02/13 12:12, Dan Fandrich wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:02:13PM +0000, Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote:
>> I would say that packages which autodownload non-free material should
>> be in nonfree (like get-skype). For the same reason that free
>> packages which Require a package in nonfree should be in nonfree.
>
> But what happens when free content becomes available so that the non-free
> download is no longer required? This is unlikely in the case of Skype,
> but has happened with other games engines in the past.

If it becomes free, we push the newer version to the free repository. 
Fairly simple :-).

Cheers,
-- 
Malo



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