Re: Packaging fst and dssi-vst

[Free Ekanayaka <free@agnula.org>]

|--==> Josh Triplett writes:

  >>
  >>Cleary this would imply that the package can't be build from source by
  >>build daemons, but should be built manually by the maintainer, who has
  >>agreed the VST SDK license and downloaded the headers.

  JT> Yes, a package in contrib may require things which are not in Debian at
  JT> all; for example, many Java packages in contrib require the Sun JDK,
  JT> which Debian cannot distribute even in non-free.  Not being able to
  JT> autobuild is also OK; that's expected for many packages in contrib and
  JT> non-free.  Given that the package is specifically designed to run VST
  JT> plugins from Windows, it seems pointless to go to a lot of effort to
  JT> attempt to get it into main if most people will be using it with
  JT> proprietary software anyway.

Thanks for  the clarification. I think   this is definitely  flash for
contrib. I have draft package ready and I'm going to open an ITP.

Cheers,

Free