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Hi Sascha,

"Sascha Peilicke" <speilicke at suse.com> wrote:
> On 07/04/2013 02:34 PM, Sascha Peilicke wrote:
> > On 07/04/2013 12:03 PM, Matthias Runge wrote:
> >> On 04/07/13 11:27, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> >>> Horizon seems to use python-selenium. The problem is that, in Debian,
> >>> this package is in the non-free repository. So I strongly suggest to not
> >>> use it for Havana. That otherwise would put Horizon into the contrib
> >>> repository of Debian (eg: not officially in Debian), or eventually,
> >>> remove any possibility to run the unit tests, which isn't nice.
> >>>
> >> Thank you for the heads-up.
> >>
> >> Selenium is used for tests during development, it is not a runtime
> >> requirement at all.
> >>
> >> Would that still make it non-free for Debian?
> >
> > BTW. this is identical for openSUSE.
> >
> >> How did Horizon went into Debian packages at all, since the situation in
> >> this front is unchanged for at least a year (just curious).
> >
> > At least here, our horizon test package just doesn't depend on selenium.
> 
> This could help: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/35649/

Could you explain why Selenium is considered to be non-free?

Thanks,

Julie