Re: RFS: libmesh

["Ondrej Certik" <ondrej@certik.cz>]

> If the upstream tarball contains non-free sources, you'll have to
> repackage it. See section 6.7.8.2 of the developers' reference[1].
> Naturally, it must also /work/ without the parts you've removed. If
> possible and useful, you may want to consider moving the parts that
> have been removed to packages in non-free or contrib (assuming your
> package has such a plugin architecture). They'll have to have a
> seperate source package though.
>
> [1] - http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-origtargz

Thanks for pointing this out. I had described everything in the
copyright file, but now I've also created the get-orig-source target
in my debian/rules file. Unfortunately, the package is not really
modular, but fortunately, the important parts of libmesh works very
nice with only dfsg free libraries, thus I am going to leave it as is.

See the README.Debian how to compile against libmesh in Debian. It's
really easy now, compared to how it used to be.

Ondrej