Re: Building from source required?
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> Must packages in main derive the contents of binary packages from the
> sources shipped in the source package, or can they simply copy
> pre-generated, not directly editable files which have been derived
> using some other process (not available in the package sources)?
That is quite a vague question, do you have more specific details?
Sounds like a package that has source that is built using something
non-free, which would put it in contrib?
I would personally hope packages in main are built from source, we
often don't fully do that though (for e.g. autotools generated build
systems).
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pabs
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