Re: Non-free packages play hard to (apt-)get

[Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>]

Laurent de Segur <ldesegur@mac.com> writes:

> Every time I have been wanting to install a non-free package (unzip,
> zip, etc...) I had to revert back my /etc/apt/sources.list to stable
> vs. testing to be able to access these packages. Is it intended to
> be that way? I would seem that I should be able to access the
> non-free from any version, but that is not the case apparently. No
> big deal, just curious.

AFAIK there is no non-free autobuilder set up; I can't imagine there
is much non-free software for powerpc that people would want to use
anyways.

But in the case of unzip, it's in main (although non-US) now.