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Re: Ask yourself some questions



On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:53:12 -0500, Branden Robinson
<branden@debian.org> wrote:
>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".

If a non-free package has bad, unfixable bugs, then it is removed.
Simple. Has happened in the past.

Wir muessen hier nicht das Kind mit dem Bade ausschuetten.

Greetings
Marc

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