Re: Bug#203498: ITP: decss -- utility for stripping CSS tags from an HTML page.

[Evan Prodromou <evan@debian.org>]

>>>>> "SL" == Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes:

    SL> If the intent is *only* as a political tool, I would agree
    SL> that this decss program achieves its aims fairly effectively;
    SL> but it is in no way a useful piece of *software*, which is
    SL> what Emile seems to be arguing by disagreeing that it's
    SL> trivial to implement.  The question then is whether we want to
    SL> include programs in Debian which are useful only as something
    SL> other than software.

So, I'm the upstream author of Pigdog DeCSS
(http://www.pigdog.org/decss/), and I have received numerous emails
from people who actually use it for stripping cascading stylesheet
info from HTML pages.

So, unfortunately, it's not 100% useless.

~ESP

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Evan Prodromou
evan@debian.org