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Re: Flame against non-free burning, time to think.



On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:15:20PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > Packages that were unreleasable presumably weren't counted in the
> > distribution release totals.  That the number of non-free packages in
> > unstable is larger than the number of non-free packages in any release
> > is instructive.

> For woody, it might mean lots of them weren't built for all releasable
> archs.  Hardly an indicative sign since non-free is not autobuilt.

Being built (or buildable) on all archs has never been a requirement for including a
package in a stable release; the only requirement is that a package must be rebuilt on
all architectures it has *previously* been built on before it can move from unstable
to testing.  This isn't a very solid explanation for these packages not making it into
a stable release.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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