Re: need decision on packages with crypto hooks
On 29 Mar 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> 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 ??
("depend" or "recommend" as shown in its control file)
> That would put dpkg-dev into contrib. I don't think this is a good idea.
:-???
dpkg-dev doesn't depends nor recommends any crypto package:
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.4.0.8
Priority: important
Section: utils
Maintainer: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Recommends: cpio (>= 2.4.2-2), patch
Conflicts: dpkgname
Replaces: dpkgname, dpkg (<< 1.4.0)
Architecture: all
It is not easy for a lot of Debian users to install a package from stable
that depends on (or recommends) one from non-US, if non-US is not on their
Debian CD-ROM. This will buy us bad publicity. (IIRC, stable should be
self-consistant).
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es
Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental
Univ. de La Laguna
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