Bdale Garbee wrote: > I believe the change in lintian responding to bug #394720 is over-zealous, > because I believe it should be a warning and not an error for a single source > package to deliver binary packages into both main and contrib. We have a few > legitimate packages in the archive where the source is in main and delivers > binary packages to both main and contrib. This usually happens when the > source itself is DFSG-compliant, but some non-free tool is required to build > some optional part of the package.
The other likely case is when one of the binary packages created by a source package in "main" is in "contrib" because it ships an installer script for non-free data. I don't know if this is done by any package already in Debian, but it _is_ done by the Debianized ROOT source package [1] for the optional "ttf-root-installer" binary package [2] that can download non-free TTF fonts. ROOT has been rejected twice by FTP-masters (once for license issues and the second time for "too-generic package names"), but they never complained about this particular characteristic. We do hope to upload ROOT into Debian in the near future once the naming issue is resolved. [1] http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root [2] http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root/dists/unstable/root/binary-amd64/#ttf-root-installer Anyway, one more data point for you to consider. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
