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Re: Proposal - non-free software removal



On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:20:57PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@quickfur.yi.org> writes:
> 
> > And why? I bring to your attention that the current Debian source is
> > actually better than the latest upstream (which has been abandoned,
> > unfortunately), in terms of workability with the new Xaw. There is at
> > least one other aXe user who is glad of this fact, besides myself. 
> > Removing it from Debian means users will have to use the old version which
> > does not work with XFree 4.x at all. I do not have the resources to host
> > the Debianized source myself.
> 
> Once again, aXe cannot be removed from Debian, because it's not part
> of Debian.

<put on pedant's hat>
Removing it from _The Debian FTP site_ means users will have to use the
old version ...
</put on pedant's hat>

Happy?


T

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