Re: source with main & contrib targets

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>]

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.

-- 
James


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