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Re: Packages removed from frozen



On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 12:02:36AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>         Common sense dictates that packages which are in build
>  essentials may need to be excempt. Gcc definitely qualifies; but the
>  others may not be.

Are you seriously saying that Debian should not distribute compilers for
other languages than C?  Most compilers are written in the same language
that they target.  It is, in fact, a desirable feature of compilers that
they can compile themselves.

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