On 09/30/2017 08:09 AM, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On വെള്ളി 29 സെപ്റ്റംബര് 2017 10:54 വൈകു, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> with npm not available in testing (and according to #857986 this will >> not change in the near future), these node-* packages must be kept >> out of testing, since they cannot be rebuilt in testing (regardless of >> any external resources they might need additionally). > > I don't think this interpretation of policy is correct. Packages in > contrib can require packages outside archive for building or during > execution.
Unstable is not outside the archive. TTBOMK, there is only one package requiring non-redistributable software outside the archive (since it is not even suitable for non-free) for building: libdbd-oracle-perl (in contrib). It has B-D: oracle-instantclient12.1-basic, oracle-instantclient12.1-devel Anyway, I'm happy to see some of the problematic node-* packages in NEW for moving to main! Andreas
