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Re: Usage of a nonfree program to improof Debian security?



On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 08:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> How does Debian handel such issues? Policy isn't so positv about this, I
> guess. Are there any earlier, similar cases?

Yes, earlier cases include the use of pgp, qmail, and ssh.
We're trying to get away from all of those -- I would rather not add a new one.

In particular, making lintian depend on a non-free tool would mean removing
lintian from main.  That is not a good thing.

Richard Braakman



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