Re: xv?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:11:55AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> Is there a policy reason why there is no xv package, or is it just that no
> one has bothered to package it?

It was removed some time ago because its licence doesn't allow us to
distribute binaries built from modified source. The xv package involved
modifications to the source (presumably to fit Debian policy or to fix
bugs), so the package had to be withdrawn.

See <http://bugs.debian.org/96458> (ignoring the spat about packaging
formats) and <http://bugs.debian.org/98215>.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]