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



On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 03:06:47PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:25:23PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > So, what *are* you really using non-free for?  Just because vrms lists
> > it doesn't mean you can get it from Debian.  For instance, I still had
> > pgp-us listed.  "apt-get --reinstall install pgp-us" told me that even
> > if Debian scrapped non-free today, I wouldn't be any *worse* off with
> > regard to that package, because Debian already got rid of it.
> 
> No, pgp-us merged with pgp-i after the RSA patent expired, and the
> result is called just "pgp".

And nobody bothered to make pgp-us a dummy package that would haul the
new one in.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     "Why do we have to hide from the
Debian GNU/Linux                   |      police, Daddy?"
branden@debian.org                 |     "Because we use vi, son.  They use
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |      emacs."

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