On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:39:24AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 08:45:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > To be eligible for inclusion in the archive at all, even in the > > (unstable-only) SCC archive, ftpmasters have specified the following > > architecture requirements: > > [...] > > - binary packages must be built from the unmodified Debian source > > (required, among other reasons, for license compliance) > Is this a simple sanity requirement (i.e. no hacked crap being > uploaded to the archive), or does it imply that all packages in base > (or base + build-essential) need to be buildable from unmodified > source? I assume what you're asking here is whether non-GNU/Linux ports have to have the same base system as the GNU/Linux ports do. This was not implied. The implication here is that you can't have a separate version of the same source package for your architecture just because the maintainer isn't willing to accept patches. > > - the port must demonstrate that they have at least 50 users > How do you demonstrate that? Via popularity-contest? <shrug> collect a list of names? :) Doesn't seem that hard to me, is there any reason you think it would be? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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