On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:49:28PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:45:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > The acroread packages are not legally redistributable (at least in the > > US). They are not official packages and are hosted from a server > > outside the US. All the flashplugin-nonfree package does is to download > > the tarball directly from Macromedia and then unpack it on your system. > > Right. Exactly. Why couldn't a vmware package download the tarball > directly from vmware.com and unpack in on my system? > > Would a request-to-package be in order? Hi Carl, you can reqest via the wnpp process right now that someone make a similar script to the one used to make flash installed anytime but of course it would it in 'contrib' as it depends on a non-free item. And if and when it becomes dfsg-free, then you can ask that it be packaged for debian in 'main' via the same wnpp process. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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