Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

"Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

"An alternative"? Re-writing the Emacs manual (IIRC this was the
sticking point early on in this thread) is not an easy task. At the
very least I would expect this to take some time. In the mean time, the
maintainer(s) still had to follow the DFSG and whatnot, so I cannot see
what choice they had...

An alternative action would have been to move bash-doc, emacs and
other packages that are going to be altered by this decision to
non-free rather than removing the documentation and leaving us with
none.

That seems like a perfectly reasonable course of action given the
circumstances.

I just can't understand why people think it's reasonable to just take
the documentation away. It's dogmatic in the extreeme.

--
Nic Ferrier
http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk


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