Binary blobs in source packages
Hi,
I just made a fool of myself on the simple-build-tool list by claiming that
Debian would build scala without scala. I only checked debian/rules and
debian/control and since scala is in main, I assumed that I must be right.
However scala comes with a bytecode-compiled scala compiler in lib/ which is
required only during build but not installed in the binary packages.
I already opened reportbug to fill a serious Debian Policy violation, but
actually I couldn't find anything in the policy about it.
So is it ok to ship binaries in the source package that are only required
during build? Can I do the same with simple-build-tool, which requires itself
to build?
Regards,
Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
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