Re: Bug#2393: incomplete non-free installation of giftrans, unzip, and zip
Bdale Garbee writes:
>
> In article <[🔎] 199602222322.RAA14936@hp-47.cae.wisc.edu> you wrote:
> : ... the solution is to have 2 non-free and contrib trees, but I'm not
> : ready to propose how that would look...
>
> This will not happen. I considered moving 'contrib' down to being just another
> directory under source and binary per release, but I believe this is only an
> issue until we release an ELF-based 'stable' release.
Probably, although I guess it will be an issue again when libc6 comes out ;)
> In my opinion, the sooner we can release 1.1 and quit bothering with aout
> executables, the better.
Well, at least supporting only a.out executables.
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