Re: white listing packages in contrib???
- To: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>, Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>, Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>, nonfree@release.debian.org, debian-wb-team@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: white listing packages in contrib???
- From: Andreas Barth <aba@ayous.org>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 10:42:49 +0100
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* Samuel Thibault (sthibault@debian.org) [171217 10:37]:
> FI, with quick scripting I'm ending up with the following list of
> contrib packages which have a *build-time* dependency on non-free, which
> we thus currently have to build by hand:
AFAIR the debian policy, it's not allowed to have a dependency from
contrib to non-free. This includes both binary and source (i.e.
build-time) dependencies.
If that's a wise thing is another question.
IMHO the best would be to split non-free into "mostly useable" and
"don't touch this", and add "mostly useable" to the
build-dependencies. This however requires cooperation from the
ftp-masters. Other than that, I wouldn't recommend to take the legal
responsibility to build against non-free packages.
Andi
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