Carlo Segre <se...@iit.edu> writes: >>> An alternative which would remove the inconsistency is to make the >>> decision that contrib packages will not be built by the officeial >>> buildd network but have to be built as non-free packages are, on the >>> unofficial buildd network. >> If my understanding is current, non-free packages are autobuilt only as a >> result of explicit whitelisting indicating that there are no license >> problems resulting from doing so. I think the same would have to be true of >> contrib packages, since even *installing* packages from non-free could have >> license implications that impact the buildd operators. > OK, in my case pgplot5 has been whitelisted for many years. Is it > possible to have these contrib packages whitelisted on the non-free > buildd network too?
We are currently reworking the non-free support in the buildd network. In the long term, we want to be able to build whitelisted packages, and allow contrib packages to use binaries built from whitelisted package. This is not done yet, but people (more specifically, Andreas Barth) are working on it. Marc -- Fachbegriffe der Informatik - Einfach erklärt 255: City Die Gegend mit der höchsten Kneipendichte und den wenigsten Parkplätzen. (Juergen Nieveler)
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