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Re: Migration of non-free packages to testing



On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:18:59AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > > We have come a long way in many respects, and I really see no reason that
> > > Debian needs to be providing non-free software.
> > 
> > Why are you still maintaining bulkmail and whirlgif, both non-free
> > packages?
> 
> Why does this pose a problem for you?  If it doesn't for me, as the
> maintainer of those packages, why you?
> 
> I will not shed a tear if those packages disappear from the Debian archive. 
> Probably nobody else will either.

If nobody will be sorry to see them go, why not remove them normally,
instead of trying to get the whole section removed? :>

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