On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:53:17AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:02:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > It hasn't even done that; as I have had to use Java from third-party > > repositories at work for some time and have not noticed it being any > > lower quality that non-free packages in Debian. > > ah, because you used it on x86. wasn't that one of the arguments for > removing non-free ?
Huh? I totally do not follow what you're saying here. > > The lack of 1.4 for PowerPC is not really germane; Debian doesn't have > > it for PowerPC either and Debian doesn't keep non-i386 archs in sync > > either. > > And how would removing non-free from the debian archives help here. It wouldn't. That's why I said it's "not really germane." -- John