On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nathanael,
>
> I noticed this comment from in debian-release:
>
> > Package: emacs21 (optional; Rob Browning) [emacs21/21.4a-3 ; =] [add/edit
> comment]
> > 207932 [ ] [NONFREE-DOC:UNMODIFIABLE] emacs21: Includes non-free
> documents
> >
> > These are not FDL documents, they're just plain unmodifiable documents, and
> it's quite
> > clear they're intended to be that way.
> >
> > The maintainer here has so far refused to address the bug at all. I believe
> it is
> > past time to remove emacs21 from etch,
Removing one of the very first free programs from Debian would be
definitely a milestone in Debian history.
> or to remove the maintainer from the
> package.
It's a pity that Debian project seems now to be dominated by fanatics.
>
> Since the FDL documents contain invariant sections, they will have to be
> moved to non-free very soon.
Again, a pity.
>
> So, I'll propose to move those essays to non-free as well at the same
> time in order to avoid changing the orig tar as much as possible.
>
> Shall we make a truce, a peace even,
Or make Emacs package unofficial :-). Personally I wouldn't care.
Best regards and thanks for your work on Emacs packaging.
Janusz
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,
dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW - Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra Lingwistyki
Formalnej)
Prof. Janusz S. Bien - Warsaw Uniwersity (Department of Formal Linguistics)
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