Re: Why no Opera?

[Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca>]

On Mon August 27 2007 05:33:05 pm Romain Beauxis wrote:
> Le Tuesday 28 August 2007 00:17:40 Bruce Sass, vous avez écrit :
> > On Mon August 27 2007 04:05:24 pm Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > > And
> > > it's no way we will accept the statically linked version in
> > > Debian.
> >
> > Why is that?
>
> Quoting [1]:
> External libraries
<...>

Of course, obviously---for software where there is a choice, but for 
software which can not be built from source because it is closed or not 
redistributable once modified (which seems to be the case with Opera), 
putting a statically linked version into the archive sounds like the 
correct solution.

btw, I agree with Russ Allbery:
"...but just dropping the vendor's Debian package in our archive seems 
like entirely pointless..."


- Bruce