Re: distributing precompiled binaries
Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:57:49 +0000 MJ Ray wrote:
> [...]
> > I found gnapplet with sources in the contrib bit of the gammu tree.
> > https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=gammu;ver=1.23.1-2;arch=i386;stamp=1236036416
> > doesn't seem to mention it being rebuilt.
> > Can it not be rebuilt from those sources alone? [...]
>
> It seems to me that bug #521448 is an attempt to report this [...]
> I am not sure whether the bug should be reopened or maybe another bug
> report should be filed against gammu.
> What do others think?
Reopen and retitle? As I understand policy 2.2.2, the gammu applet is
almost exactly the example of "free packages which require [...]
packages which are not in our archive at all for compilation or
execution" at the moment. Minor but essential.
Hope that helps,
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