Re: Compiling java debian packages with free tools
--- Mark Howard <mh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:33:39PM +0200, John Leuner wrote:
> > I feel that despite whatever decisions we make about free and non-free
> > VMs and tools etc, we should firstly pay attention to simply compiling
> > our software with free tools and against free libraries or free APIs.
> Doesn't this happen already? Please give examples. If it can be compiled
> with free software but isn't, what severity bug should we file? Should
> poilcy say that free compilers must be used if they can?
I'd say yes, but as a free java environment developer, I'm biased ;) Though I
don't think it should be a severe bug preventing a package from entering
testing.
cheers,
dalibor topic
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