Intent to package pine-src
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I have just read Bug #14355, in which Ian Jackson said about qmail-src:
This package has no reason to exist and should be withdrawn. We
distribute source as .dsc/.diff.gz/.orig.tar.gz.
Well, this package exists for two reasons:
1) Because license does not allow to distribute a binary.
2) Because there is not an easy method for downloading a source package
by using dselect or existing tools.
To solve 1), we would have to change the license, but we can't because we
obviously do not own the copyright...
To solve 2), we can either:
a) Modify dselect/dpkg so that it allows retrieving and unpacking source
packages as well as binary packages.
b) Allow .deb "source" packages like qmail-src, as an exception for the
rule "we distribute source as .dsc/.diff.gz/.orig.tar.gz" for non-free
packages.
Since a) is clearly not going to be done for hamm, I don't see really a
reason why -src packages should be "forbidden".
Ian, why do you still think that qmail-src should not exist?
Are you the only one?
[ I intent to package pine-src ].
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