Re: [PROPOSAL] Allowing crypto in the main archive
On 29-Jan-01, 20:07 (CST), Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:34:57PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > >>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> > Anthony> Are you going to go through the distribution and maintain a
> > Anthony> list of which packages all these tags apply to, and which
> > Anthony> they don't?
> > Heh. Sure. I'll do it once. And your proposal has no way of
> > ensuring the tags are either accurate, or are maintained.
>
> You'll do it once, or you'll actually maintain them?
>
> I don't see the point of keeping around non-* tags if no one is going to
> make any effort towards keeping them up to date.
Why do you keep agreeing with Manoj in a way that seems to imply you
disagree? :-)
This is Manoj's point (as I understand it, anyway (and agree with)):
The non- tags won't be maintained in a reasonable way, and there is
no way for Debian (as a whole) to responsibly encourage people to
rely on them, so they are of negative value (because people *will*
rely on them). Adding them to policy will just mislead our users (in
whatever form: mirrors, cd producers, etc.) into thinking we've actually
validated against a given country's laws.
Steve
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