Re: 2nd call for help
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 03:50:16PM -0600, Zed Pobre wrote:
>
> > Why is it going to contrib? Last time I checked packages without
> > source went in non-free, not contrib.
>
> Because source is in fact provided (it's in the iraf-common
> package, actually, full binaries are in iraf-ibin and iraf-noaobin) --
> and in fact some of the source is used on-the-fly by the main program
> - -- but it's a royal mess and very difficult get get to compile in a
> single pass without a lot of manual intervention. There was no way I
> was going to be able to write conformant Makefiles before the code
> freeze, so I shifted it from main to contrib so I could get it in at
> all.
Sorry, I'm not sure you have the right impression of contrib here. Contrib
packages have to qualify the same standards as the main distribution,
*except* that they may depend on non-free stuff.
But the package requirements, the dfsg-compliance and so on are the same.
Bye,
Marcus
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