Re: Building from source required?
* Paul Wise:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>
>> Must packages in main derive the contents of binary packages from the
>> sources shipped in the source package, or can they simply copy
>> pre-generated, not directly editable files which have been derived
>> using some other process (not available in the package sources)?
>
> That is quite a vague question, do you have more specific details?
libjs-jquery prompted this question. The files in dist/ have been
processed and are not source-equivalent, and are directly copied into
the binary package.
> Sounds like a package that has source that is built using something
> non-free, which would put it in contrib?
Hmm, I don't really know which Javascript packer is used there.
Sorry.
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