Re: Allowed to build-depend a pkg in main on a pkg in non-free?

[Roland Fehrenbacher <rf@q-leap.de>]

>>>>> "S" == Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> writes:

    S> Roland Fehrenbacher, le mer. 30 sept. 2020 20:47:58 +0200, a
    S> ecrit:
    >> Is the only solution here then really to have two source packages
    >> with exactly the same upstream source and only a difference in
    >> the way the binaries are built and what they depend upon?

    S> That's what I do with starpu and hwloc. In starpu the packaging
    S> difference is really minimal so I use some sed scripts to switch
    S> between the "main" version and the "contrib" version. In hwloc
    S> the difference is more involved so I use two branches, and just
    S> pull from master to contrib. In the end it's not really much
    S> additional work.

Thanks Samuel, such examples were exactly what I was looking for. I will
take the 'two branches' approach. Seems that's the cleanest ..