On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:20:56PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:22:41 +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > > Will there be non-US CDs for the sarge release? ISTR that some people > > wanted to get rid of them, and I'm inclined to support that: These days, > > the non-US section isn't as useful as it used to be > The remainder consists of a few rather obscure packages: > --- packages in non-US/main I couldn't find equivalents for in regular main --- > erlang-slang > gutenbrowser > httperf > pipsecd > tunnelv > vtun > zmailer-ssl > Now that we have crypto in main, the only real use for non-US is for > packages that are encumbered by patents in the US which aren't encumbered by > patents in the EU. I am not aware of any practical packages that fall in > that category at the moment. Not any that are in non-US/main in any case, AIUI, which means they probably wouldn't be released as part of a CD set. I believe getting non-US into working order again is still considered a blocker for release, but I think the concern here is non-US/non-free and getting non-US/main operational to the point that *removals* can be processed for sarge. (At least, britney thinks that all of the above-listed non-US/main packages should be removed.) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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