Re: removing gopher

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 05:12:32PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:28:47PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > 3. Lynx is free and handles gopher URLs on a text terminal
> 
> Last time I checked, Lynx doesn't handle gopher forms.  [Whether anyone
> cares is a different issue.  I suppose someone ought to check what
> popularity-contest has on this issue.]
> 
> > 4. The package is not complete; the source also includes the gopher
> >    server but there is no debian package.
> 
> This was deliberate.  [It's one thing to distribute a non-free client.
> It's another to distribute a non-free server.]

Perhaps you remember history differently than I do -- as I recall,
when it was in the old source format (bo and before), there was a
gopher-client and a gopherd package, built from the gopher source code.
ie the server was indeed packaged.

When I worked on it for hamm, I basically packaged it from scratch
(the old source format was ugly). I had intended to go back and get
it to build the gopherd package at a later date, but I haven't yet.

Hence it was not deliberate but sheer laziness :-)

cheers
Hamish
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