Re: gnupg problem
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 02:30:19PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > > you know, what I've ment. Debian *distribution* is main and non-US/main
> >
> > Thene where are the security releases?
>
> security.debian.org
>
> mailcrypt is not in debian, its in contrib. niether contrib or
> non-free are part of debian.
>
> if gnupg broke deps on a another package in main i think you would
> have a point, but it broke something outside the distribution which is
> beyond the concerns of the security team, they only need to care about
> the distribution which is main and non-US/main.
I think we have a point here too... I mean, let's actually do the
best we can, instead of doing as little as possible.
In fact, the only reason mailcrypt is in contrib is that it adapts to
the patent-restricted versions of gpg/pgp software. As far as its use
with gpg, it belongs in main.
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