Re: source with main & contrib targets
On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 04:35:17PM +0000, 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.
Can you suggest a solution? Since the source package cannot be in
contrib to build a main package, and cannot be in main to build a contrib
package, is there any solution other than (a) drop one (I'm not willing
to drop the contrib one and it's a shame to drop the main one),
or (b) duplicate the source packages with different names?
Is policy buggy in this respect? I will ask on debian-policy.
Hamish
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