Re: non-US

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:08:16AM -0500, linux@austrialpinusa.com wrote:
> Citát Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>:
> > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:16:45AM +0100, Martin Helas wrote:
> > > did i miss something, or has there been no package update in non-US
> > > since 20th of November?
> > 
> > Correct. It's low priority to fix, since non-US is essentially a
> > graveyard anyway.
> 
> What do you mean exactly when you say that it is a "graveyard anyway"?
> From what I read it is the "recommended-more secure version". Isn`t
> it?

Since before the release of woody, DFSG-free cryptographic software has
been legal to distribute from the main archive in the US, so most
packages that used to be in non-US have migrated there. The only ones
left are those in contrib or non-free, those with unresolved licensing
problems, those whose maintainers haven't been paying attention, or
both.

> So what is the difference? Which version to use? 

There are no name clashes between main and non-US as far as I know, so
this question should never arise.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]