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Re: Proposal new source archive format



On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 11:36:03PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> > unzip is in non-free, so it cannot be used to build debian packages.
> 
> Package: zlib-bin
> Priority: optional
> Section: utils
> Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/utils/zlib-bin_1.1.3-5.deb
> Description: compression library - sample programs
>  Some generally useful sample programs from the contrib directory.
>  Includes a "mini" implementation of `zip' and `unzip' called
>  `minizip' and `miniunzip' respectively.

Not to mention that zip and unzip are both free now, as was recently
pointed out on another list.

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