On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:19:25AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > I should simply stop using misleading pronomina: > "No, but I and probably Rémi too read Branden's remark as: Even if > we remove the package from non-free, the old locally installed copies > of these packages will still be available. In this context *Rémi's* > remark makes sense. ..." > > I might think "the old packages work well enough" but in reality > there might be some bad bug in them that I've just failed to notice yet > because I as simple user have not taken over the maintainer's role and > do not read upstream's BTS. But we can't provide any guarantees that this won't happen anyway, even with *maintained* non-free packages, because the licensing may not permit it, or no source code may be available. That we can fix bad bugs in one non-free package is cold comfort to those who are affected by bad bugs in non-free packages we *can't* fix. We, do, on the other hand, go to a great deal of effort to ensure that Debian main is free of "bad bugs". -- G. Branden Robinson | There is no housing shortage in Debian GNU/Linux | Lincoln today -- just a rumor that branden@debian.org | is put about by people who have http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | nowhere to live. -- G. L. Murfin
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