Re: Bug#118294: mutt_1.3.23-2(unstable/ia64): build-depends on a non-US package
El 05 Nov 2001 a las 12:54PM +0100, Petr Cech escribio:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 10:57:10AM +0100 , Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> wrote:
> > > On Nov 04, James Troup <james@nocrew.org> wrote:
> > >>You can't build-depend on a non-US package; that violates policy
> > >>(2.1.2). Either the package needs to be moved to non-US or you need
> > >>to fix it not to require non-US packages to build.
> > > OK. Since I'm not going to build two packages I'd like to know what mutt
> > > users would prefer:
> > > - I move the package to non-US
> > > - I remove again and forever SSL support
> >
> > > If not enough people will complain I'll do the first thing.
> >
> > Please do the second
>
> why remove ssl?
> > what disadvantages would moving to non-US have?
> > No buildd's?
>
> in history, many people didn't have non-US in their packages line. which
> was/is (I confess) an excuse to cripple many programs, which could use
> crypto, but don't to get in into main. Now with mozilla in non-US probably
> everyone has it
Something i think is more important, main an non-US/main are both the
Debian main distribution, so, why limiting security functionalities in
a program if you can use all of them without maintaining two packages?
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