Re: autotools and programming style (was: Remove cdrtools)

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@fastmail.fm>]

Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> You mean the difference between manpages-posix-dev (in non-free) and
> manpages-dev (in main)? The first is not proposed by Debian (I still don't
> get why anone would want to change a standards document as not changing it
> is the whole purpose of its existence.)

In order to make a new standard based on the previous standard.  Duh.  Very
common use case.  The problem is not permission to "change a standards
document" but permission to "make a modified derivative of a standards
document".  I don't understand why people have such trouble understanding
this.

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Nathanael Nerode  <neroden@fastmail.fm>

Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it.
So why isn't he in prison yet?...