Re: source with main & contrib targets
On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 07:00:12AM +0100, Scott Hanson wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
> > 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?
>
> I faced a similar question with mysql itself. All of the client side
> source files are free (in our sense of the word); only a handful of
> source files for the server are covered by the 'Mysql Free Public
> License' (i.e. non-free). I toyed with the idea of splitting the
> source to put some of the subpackages into contrib (or maybe even
> main).
>
> I ended up deciding this was too much bother for little or no
> benefit. After all, you may be able to compile and run mysql clients
> without using any non-free source files, but you can't do anything
> useful with them without a non-free mysql server running someplace.
That's true, although policy doesn't really care about those
sort of dependencies. And for what it's worth, it would get me out
of my situation. :-) But I can understand your decision.
Hamish
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