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Re: Compress in Debian.



>> Nevertheless, Debian should not link `compress' to `gzip'.

100% agreed.

>> It's nice that X11R6 can use gzip, but I expect the X11R6 Makefiles
>> run `gzip' and not a `compress' binary masquerading as `gzip'.

Agreed.  I was merely making it clear that the only remaining *excuse*
for having a lz-compress-patent-violating binary on a linux system had
been converted from a SMOP to SMORE :-)
						_Mark_

[*] SMOP/RE - Simple Matter of Programming/Release Engineering.

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