Re: Acroread package
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 01:39:17AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 06:53:15PM +0100, David Bachelart wrote:
> > I have some problems to download the acroread package on the Debian
> > website : the search engine on http://packages.debian.org/ gives no
> > result.
> >
> > However, a search using Google gives the page
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=acroread, and this page
> > contains a link to the "acroread package page"
> > (http://packages.debian.org/acroread) which is a free page... It seems
> > to be a broken link.
>
> The acroread package had to be removed from Debian. However, we kept its bug
> reports (the bugs.debian.org URL) for the time being. They'll be removed as
> well eventually.
The acroread package will eventually return in some other form (i.e. as an
installer), so it would be nice to keep its old bug reports for now. I just
have been procrastinating. :-) Meanwhile, some users are already using
the unofficial Debian package kindly maintained by Christian Marillat. :-)
Cheers,
Anthony
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