opencpn: binaries without source.
On 10/9/18 9:08 PM, Michael Kolmodin wrote:
> Dear list,
debian-gis@l.d.o is the appropriate list for discussions.
> opencpn is on hold, waiting for review of the wvsvg dependency [1]. I
> have uploaded a draft packaging of latest release 4.8.6 to salsa
> (remarks are welcome!)
There are also outstanding issues for unarr. You still need to remove
the old packages from mentors, and reply to the comments for 1.0.1:
https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-grass-devel/2018-October/073621.html
Sponsoring the upload is blocked by those issues.
> In the meantime, I have looked into packaging some of the most important
> plugins. The issue here is that several of them contains pre-compiled
> binaries. The reasons are obvious: these plugins handles various
> confidential chart formats.
>
> On Fedora, I would have to package such plugins outside Fedora,
> practically speaking this would mean rpmfusion.
>
> How are such things handled by Debian?
Pre-compiled binaries are not acceptable, if it cannot be built from
source it must be excluded from the package.
Some kind of plugin manager in the application may be used to download
pre-compiled binaries.
> Cheers!
> --alec
That's not from your From headers says.
Kind Regards,
Bas
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