Re: update messages

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

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