Re: source with main & contrib targets
> James Troup wrote:
> > Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
> >
> > > I may have mentioned this before; apologies. www-sql (which produces
> > > binary package www-mysql, recently renamed from www-sql) now has
> > > support for postgresql. www-pgsql can do into main (www-sql is GPL),
> > > while www-mysql belongs in contrib because of mysql.
> > >
> > > If www-pgsql is to go into main, the source package www-sql must go
> > > into main too. But building the binary packages will try to build
> > > www-mysql too, which requires the header files and libraries from
> > > mysql. Is this a problem?
> >
> > Yes, packages in main must not require stuff not in main to build,
> > even source packages.
> >
> I have the same problem, but the other way around. mesa is completely
> dfsg compliant. Recently, they added support for 3dfx graphics boards.
> To compile this version, you need the glide library, which is non-free.
> For other reasons (having to do with the license on the header files in
> libglide) I have chosen not to compile this version yet. It does seem
> silly that such a useful, and free, piece of software will have to
> go into contrib if we wish to also distribute the glide based version.
Why can't you guys have two source packages - one in main and another in
contrib. The first produces completely free binary package(s) and the
other - non-free supplement (or substitutuon).
Exactly the same situation we have with ddd, btw.
Alex Y.
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