Re: INTENT: to pkg netscape 4.5 full debs(not 4.05)
On 17 Jun 1998, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
>
> Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:
>
> > As some of you might know, I have been working on full debs of netscape
> > 4.05. I have everything almost perfect, except for the reporting clause.
>
> Is there any possibility we could get permission from Netscape to skip the
> reporting clause? Frankly I'm concerned any such reporting directly from the
> client machine would be a nasty privacy violation. Since it's going in
> non-free anyways it doesn't particularly matter if it has debian-specific
> permissions.
Sorry, I already tried.
> It would also be interesting to generate a pre-fortified version for nonus.
That is something I have thought about. It is not foremost on my TODO
list.
> PS: this may all be a distraction from working on real free software, but it's
> a darned attractive distraction... It would be real nice to a have a proper
> netscape package.
I am working toward a proper deb. I am working on an automated email
sender to satisfy netscape. Currently, it looks like this:
=====
Received: from adam.heath by adam.hackers-net.com with local (Exim 1.92 #1 (Debian))
id 0ympGh-0002g6-00; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 19:43:11 -0500
X-Debian_Report_Version: 1.0
X-Debian_Report-Pkg: netscape4-java (4.05-0.11)
X-Debian_Report-Pkg: netscape4-base (4.05-0.12)
X-Debian_Report-Pkg: navigator4-smotif (4.05-0.12)
X-Debian_Report-SRC: communicator
From: <adam@adam.hackers-net.com>
To: adam@localhost
Subject: Debian Automatic Package Registration
Message-Id: <E0ympGh-0002g6-00@adam.hackers-net.com>
Sender: <adam.heath@adam.hackers-net.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 19:43:11 -0500
This is an automated mail message sent upon installation
of certain packages. It is just used to tally the number
of times it is installed worldwide.
_start_of_data_
Package: netscape4-java
Version: 4.05-0.11
Package: netscape4-base
Version: 4.05-0.12
Package: navigator4-smotif
Version: 4.05-0.12
=====
Adam
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