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Re: non-US



Citát 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,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
> 
>
thanx for explanation, see I got a different impression when I was looking for a
distro in October 2003. Sorry that I asked, but I did not know. (I don`t know
lots of thinks and I wish I would with my getting old and lazy brain).
ed. 
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