Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)
On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 07:48:28PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Adrian Bunk
>
> > On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 07:26:06PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > >...
> > > I think it'd be preferable for the software to be in contrib (AFAIK
> > > there's nothing here which is non-free?)
> > >...
> >
> > When a package is not DFSG-free it is non-free.
> >
> > Only DFSG-free packages that depend on non-free software are allowed
> > in contrib.
>
> from policy 2.2.2:
>
> The contrib archive area contains supplemental packages intended to
> work with the Debian distribution, but which require software
> outside of the distribution to either build or function.
>
> […]
>
> Examples of packages which would be included in contrib are:
>
> free packages which require contrib, non-free packages or packages
> which are not in our archive at all for compilation or execution,
> and
>
> That sound like a pretty good match for those Javascript packages that
> require grunt to build.
Where you placed the dots policy says:
Every package in _contrib_ must comply with the DFSG.
cu
Adrian
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