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From: Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <felipe@paranacidade.org.br>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:27:23 -0300
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On 02/28/2007 12:58 PM, Nick Leverton wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 February 2007 15:28, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote:
>>      Hmmm... it seems that Debian is not packaging qmail, and the
>> reason is not because they have the freedom to choose, but because
>> they can't change a few items to comply to FHS and DFSG (Debian Free
>> Software Guidelines).
> 
> Debian have a package in the non-free section called qmail-src 
> which as you might expect contains an unmodified tarball and
> some scripts.  This package installs a script called build-qmail,
> which builds a qmail deb patched up with netqmail and some other
> debian specific patches such as FHS compliance.
[...]

        Yes, I'm aware of qmail-src. But non-free section is not
part of the Official Debian System, anyway, that's another story,
it was just to make a point as a reference.


        Kind regards,

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Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <felipe@paranacidade.org.br>
Coordenadoria de Tecnologia da Informação (CTI) - SEDU/PARANACIDADE
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