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Packaging qmail for DebianPackaging qmail for DebianPosted Dec 4, 2008 18:35 UTC (Thu) by jmm (subscriber, #34596)Parent article: Packaging qmail for Debian
It should be noted that Qmail is already part of Debian non-free since more than 10 years:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/q/qma...
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Packaging qmail for Debian Posted Dec 8, 2008 21:41 UTC (Mon) by branden (subscriber, #7029) [Link]
Now that's a good point. And uploaded as recently as September.
For me, this sheds new light on the old "keep non-free in Debian" wars. If only I had realized back then that qmail wasn't really "in" Debian because it was merely available in the non-free section.
If we'd just given non-free the boot years ago, then by definition we couldn't have been depriving people of say, qmail, because it already wasn't there. Since it isn't, we know why such importance is placed on getting it into into main...
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