New mailing list/section of website proposal for Unsupported Software

[Nathan Sprangers]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 15:16 -0500, thully at umich.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There is much software that Ubuntu doesn't wish to support in main, either
> because it doesn't fit in with the base desktop, it is non-free, or it has
> legal issues.  I propose that for this software, Ubuntu should
> 
> 1) Create a mailing list, ubuntu-unsupported , for discussions of such software
> and bugs with the usage of this software on Ubuntu (this is where all problems
> in non-free software could be handled).
> 2) Add a category to Bugzilla which allows the reporting of bugs in universe
> packages (which are free software) there.

Bugs for these packages should be reported directly to Debian since
these packages come directly from sid.  Unless you are absolutely sure a
bug is being caused by this package being built against Ubuntu's
libraries it should be reported to Debian.  I don't see how reporting
bugs to Ubuntu will do any good if the Ubuntu developers won't be
working on these packages.

> 3) Work on unifying all information on said software into one section on the
> wiki, UnsupportedSoftware (this would include RestrictedFormats, info on
> universe packages, etc.)

This sounds like a good idea to me simply for organizational reasons
although I know that I hardly ever "browse" through the wiki.  Usually I
just search the site for whatever I'm looking for.
~Nathan