Bug#3236: auto-pgp in non-free, mailcrypt in misc
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996 Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca wrote:
> Package: (ftp.debian.org)
>
> I am a little nitpicky here, but it is not too consistent that auto-pgp sits
> in non-free, and mailcrypt sits in binary-{i386,all}/misc. Both are GPLed and
> I recall that Ian J. wanted to have auto-pgp in non-free as pgp has to live
> there.
>
> Now, aren't we all in favour of pgp? Shouldn't we foster it's use? Shouldn't
> auto-pgp be moved out of the closet and into the limelight, next to mailcrypt?
>From bug 1672:
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The dpkg maintainer asked for it to be placed in non-free. As it
happens the dpkg maintainer and the author of auto-pgp are the same
person, me :-), but the reason I asked for it to be moved is not
because I don't want it in Debian (I do), but because it depends on
PGP, which has to go in non-free.
In general, putting X in a higher priority level than Y when X depends
on Y is a bad thing from the point of view of dselect's dependency
management.
It can go back into the main distribution when I get around to
producing a Debian version of PGP 2.3a which has enough of the bugs
fixed to be suitable for use.
Ian.
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Guy
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