On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 22:03 +0000, Digby Tarvin wrote: > 1. John Bradley's xv program was in the debian archive for Etch > when I installed it back in April: > /var/cache/apt/archives/xv_3.10a-1duo+etch1_i386.deb > > 2. It is not there now. > > 3. When I referred to it not being in the 'package database' I meant > that I didn't find any mention of its existance (or removal) in > http://packages.qa.debian.org/common/index.html > which is where I had found messages referring to the removal > of xearth. > > So what puzzles me is why it is no longer in 'non-free', and if > it was removed because of some objection to the licensing terms, > surely there should be something documenting this?? Are you quite sure it was in the official Debian archives? I can only find it in the non-free section on debian-unofficial.org, and the package name seems to match. http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian/pool/non-free/x/xv/ I also found this old bug from 2001, dealing with removing xv from the archive as distribution of modified binaries is prohibited. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=98215 -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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