Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 
> > The only problem with that is the current failure to comply to policy,
> > i.e. build from source as they should.
> >
> 
> The question remains is simply removing all the extra source from
> webmin-n.orig.tar.gz except that which is necessary to build the webmin
> binary package (i.e not any of the modules which will have their own
> source and binary packages) an aceptable solution to the problem or not?

>From what I read in this thread webmin-n.orig.tar.gz also contains
some non-free sources, right?

Then you have no choice but split it up to get the rest into main. And
when you don't have a pristine upstream orig.tar.gz you can split it
up as far as you like or need to.

MfG
        Goswin