Re: definition of contrib & buildd inconsistency

2010-03-23 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Carlo Segre writes: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> 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.

Re: definition of contrib & buildd inconsistency

2010-03-22 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Marc: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Carlo Segre 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

Re: definition of contrib & buildd inconsistency

2010-03-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Carlo Segre 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

Re: definition of contrib & buildd inconsistency

2010-03-21 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 04:37:25PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: * free packages which require contrib, non-free packages or packages which are not in our archive at all for compilation or execution, There is apparently an ambiguity here

Re: definition of contrib & buildd inconsistency

2010-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 04:37:25PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: > Hello All: > The definition of the contrib section of the archive reads [0] > Examples of packages which would be included in contrib are: > * free packages which require contrib, non-free packages or packages > whic

definition of contrib & buildd inconsistency

2010-03-21 Thread Carlo Segre
Hello All: The definition of the contrib section of the archive reads [0] 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, There i