Re: ARB package

[Tim Booth <avarus@fastmail.fm>]

Hi again,

OK - I just found
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/05/msg00679.html

Might be worth noting this within README.source.

Cheers,

TIM

On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 16:43 +0000, Tim Booth wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> I've been taking a look at ARB just now, and I see you've done a heck of
> a lot of work on it.  I have a couple of questions that I can't find
> answers for in the changelog or README.source, so hopefully you can
> help.
> 
> 1) Do you know what is keeping ARB in non-free apart from the depencency
> on libmotif?  I can't tell from reading the copyright file if the
> licence for the ARB source is DFSG-compliant or not.
> 
> 2) Do you know if ARB works properly when compiled against lesstif2?  I
> just verified it compiles and seems to run but maybe there are
> errors/glitches later on that you know of which I didn't notice on a
> cursory look.
> 
> 3) Any idea why jdk and perl-doc are listed as build dependencies?  I
> just tried the build without them, using pbuilder, and the
> resulting .deb files came out identical with no errors.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> TIM
> 

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