On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:12:02 +0100 Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:48:57AM +0930, Karl Goetz wrote: > > It seems bizarre to me that we require packages to build > > using software in main to be 'debian', but we wouldn't > > require it for images distributed as being 'debian'. > > What if DFSG tools to produce the proprietary formats were > available? qemu-img can create vmdk files, for example. While only shipping images built with free/in debian tools would be preferable [1] I wouldn't see a reason to object to distributing vmdk (or $other_proprietary_format) files created by qemu-img along side the raw/other images thanks, kk [1] in the same way that distributing things in .odt is preferable to .doc -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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