Re: need decision on packages with crypto hooks
ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es (Enrique Zanardi) wrote on 29.03.97 in <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.95.970329010636.1006C-100000@remoto>:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
>
> > Ok, this looks like the decision we've waited for so long.
> >
> > To summerize it:
> >
> > * packages with "crypto" programs go to our non-us site and have to be
> > maintained by someone living in a "free country" (where crypto stuff and
> > the export of these programs is legal)
> >
> > * packages with "interfaces" to crypto programs (i.e. mailers with crypto
> > hooks, emacs, pipe system call, linux kernel :-) can be included in our
> > main distribution
> >
>
> * packages that depend or recommend "crypto" packages go to the contrib
> distribution/section ??
That would put dpkg-dev into contrib. I don't think this is a good idea.
MfG Kai
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