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Re: Bug#181028: cdrecord: promotes non-free software



Hi,

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:11:59PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Anyone really interested in cutting down on Suggestions on non-free
> softwre in Debian could reduce some much more user-visible ones by going
> through that list and finding instances of Suggests that are just out of
> date -- where there is an equivilant free alternative now -- and getting
> them changed.

Oh sure, I've forgetten about this, but arj is in main now. I'm going to
file bugs about this. There are currently 8 packages suggesting it, I
hope this is not considered mass bug-filing.

There was a thread some months ago about DFSG free
compressors/archivers. Has some onemore info about this?

thanks for refreshing my memory :>,
guillem



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