On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:41:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 07:50:34PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 02:23:27AM +0000, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 05:28:55PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > And xv I havn't found at all in the packages database :-/ > > > > > > > > I can only vaguely recall xv. what is it? > > > > > > John Bradley's image viewer program. Probably frowned upon > > > by Debian for being non-free, but I registered my copy years > > > ago so I feel entitled to keep using it ;) > > > > oh yeah. not in deb. > > Then why is Debian trying to remove it if ti isn't a package? > Could it be trying to remove another thing called xv, which I think is > some X thing relating to video? > > -- hendrik
I think I may have confused matters by not knowing exactly what the 'standard' Debian terminology is. To Clarify: 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?? Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]