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Re: stability of non-free?



On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote:

>    We definitely have to do something regarding this problem. 
>    I think that non-free is definitely part of the Debian system, and favors option 1 (free/non-free inside the debian stable/unstable hierarchy).
>    What do you think ?
> 
I disagree. The whole purpose of non-free is to divorce those packages
from the distribution. Non-free has nothing to do with stable vs unstable.
It has to do with the distribution restrictions that are placed on the
packages that it contains.

Luck,

Dwarf

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