David Starner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > * That which is in main must be buildable and usable solely with > > packages also in main (IOW, main is a "closure"); > > Really? Does that mean that the Windows specific parts of GCC must be > removed from the tarball? Or does it only apply to programs, so if > coreutils provides a 1k helper program that only compiles on OpenBSD, > we can't ship an unaltered source tarball? At the very least, I'm sure > I can find DOS batch files and other build programs designed to run on > DOS/Windows in Debian. It seems rather excessive to say that every bit > of code in Debian must be compilable on Debian; as long as it's free, > and the code we're using is buildable and usable soley with packages > in main, why is the other (free) code an issue?
You have it backwards. The intention of the statement as I understood it is that all binaries shipped must be buildable. Shipping source code that doesn't build on Debian doesn't seem obviously non-free. -Billy
