On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 09:43:21AM +0000, Joseph Carter wrote: > [ a couple people getting this message are getting a Bcc, please see below ] > > On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 04:15:56PM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: > > Can we have a debian maintainer maintain KDE packages for KDE for > > distribution by KDE and _not_ by any debian ftp sites, or CD's. > > This is essentially what is being asked for. KDE distributes .debs on their > site as they do .rpms, so Debian not distributing them additionally seems > like a fair way for Debian to say "we don't like what you're doing and can't > take responsibility for helping you do it because of possible legal > backlash" and doesn't really hurt KDE unless they really want to be included > with Debian. Last time we discussed this it seemed the KDE KDE*.debs were not at all policy compliant, and installed themselves in /opt. I guess that's ok, or maybe it isn't. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD hamish@debian.org, hamish@rising.com.au Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
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