On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:08:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> > Then there are three components that will be included in the source package
> > and
> > not automaticaly built from source. All them will be eventualy sorted out,
> > but
> > for now it means the package will be in contrib. I summarise them here:
>
> Hmm, I'm unsure if binary software will be let in contrib. Since it does
> have source code, just FTBFS, this is something of a grey area.
I think it fits in Policy 2.2.2:
"Examples of packages which would be included in contrib are:
* free packages which require contrib, non-free packages or packages which
are not in our archive at all for compilation or execution, and
[...]"
MSVC is one of these packages which "are not in our archive at all".
> > It's a deb now, but I can switch it if that's more convenient. I'm not
> > familiar with BYHAND, isn't it a nuissance for ftp-masters? Also, can you
> > give an example of BYHAND package so that I can have a look and see how it
> > works?
>
> debian-installer is currently one of (the only?) byhand package. See the
> dpkg-distaddfile call in its rules file.
Will have a look.
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