On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:15:24PM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 07:57:44PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>>> I have been thinking about packaging DBDesigner, a GUI tool for >>> database design. It's GPL but it requires Borland Kylix to >>> compile. Is this contrib, non-free, or not suitable for inclusion >>> in Debian? >> contrib > Really? Is it possible at all to have software which need non-free > compiler in Debian? <splitting hair mode> No, the "contrib" and "non-free" sections of the FTP archives are not part of Debian. </splitting hair mode> For a precedent on this, note that a lot of Java packages were in this situation before, and some (a lot?) still are. For a contrib package, I suppose it is preferable that you have built the binaries yourself rather than just redistribute upstream-provided binaries. Note that the package has to obey policy 4.2. Thus it has to be buildable within Debian + contrib + non-free + eventually some other .deb gotten from elsewhere. I don't see a specific requirement that this "building" be actual compilation and not simply putting binaries in a .deb; but maybe I'm behaving too much in lawyer-mode here. Someone can shed some light on that point? It'd be better if the compiler were in non-free, or if not possible available from an apt-gettable archive somewhere. Now that I think of it, the last condition is pretty necessary for any kind of security support... It may thus be a hard requirement rather than "it'd be better". -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
