Re: Release-critical Bugreport for April 28, 2000
On 28-Apr-00, 07:19 (CDT), Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com> wrote:
> > > Package: acroread (debian/non-free)
> > > Package: glimpse (debian/non-free)
> > > Package: jdk1.1 (debian/non-free)
> > > Package: jdk1.1-dev (debian/non-free)
> > > Package: ssh-nonfree (non-US/non-free)
> > > Package: qmail (debian/non-free)
> >
> > Non-free mark it [REMOVE]
>
> A lot of people depend on ssh. I think removing it would be a bad
> idea. The "free" version is not the drop-in replacement it claims
> to be.
>
> I think Acroread is also a semi-important package to have. PDFs are
> quite common and it looks good on us to have the standard viewer
> available.
Agree -- in theory gv/ghostscript reads PDFs too, but I've had documents
that gv fails on, while acroread displays.
I also thing that pulling the jdk is likely to be bad move.
Steve
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