Re: Discussion - non-free software removal
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 05:28:38PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> This whole thread started because someone (again, sigh) confused them,
I disagree, the original poster did not necessarily confuse anything. You
cannot assert that "Debian package" has only one meaning when authoritive
sources such as deb(5) use it with another meaning.
(Did I hear anyone say our documentation about non-free wasn't working?
Maybe, just maybe, that's because our other documentation is written
improperly?.)
> and I said "whoops, that's wrong", and I was *criticized* for
> correcting the usage.
The point of my critique wasn't to dispute the differentiation between main
and non-free, but that what you were saying was basically implied and had
nothing to do with what I thought was the real point of the original
message, the technical issue of autobuilding packages. The proof that the
message was a distraction from that is the lengthy thread that ensued.
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