On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 04:58:15PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:01:45PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > A split of the tvtime upstream distribution is necessary no matter what; > > but as I understand it, the bit that would go into contrib could be > > omitted entirely. I presume the maintainer wants to go ahead and provide > > the contrib components as a service to our users. > > The tvtime distribution either must be split upstream, or the Debian > .orig.tar.gz must be distinct from the upstream distribution (the former is > obviously preferable). Yes, that's what I was trying to say. > The modules which only build on Windows are apparently some of the more > interesting ones, so yes, the author wants them to be provided as a service > to the users. Okay. I was just belaboring the point that isn't not imperative upon him to package the contrib stuff at all. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | As people do better, they start Debian GNU/Linux | voting like Republicans -- unless branden@debian.org | they have too much education and http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | vote Democratic. -- Karl Rove
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