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Bug#145439: ITP: wmnetscapekiller -- Dockapp for killing of stale netscape processes



On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:20:33AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >> Søren Boll Overgaard <boll@debian.org> writes:
> 
>  > A rather simplistic dockapp, which simply kills off every netscape
>  > process currently running. Supports killing other programs as well.
> 
>  Do we really really really want this in Debian?  Its purpose is to work
>  arround bugs in a non-free program for which there are plenty of free
>  alternatives now.  If the free versions have the same bugs, they should
>  be fixed, not brutally worked arround.

It has proved very useful when, for various reasons, forced to use netscape.
However, since you are not the first one mentioning this, I will probably not
be packaging it after all.

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