Re: Porting of non-free packages

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Ben Collins wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:24:56PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I uploaded a non-free package xearth at the end of last year for unstable.
> > I uploaded source and binary for i386.  However, I cannot see any binaries
> > for other than alpha and i386 in the package pool so far.
> > 
> > Are there any documents on automatic porting or on available machines for
> > manual porting?  I want my package have binaries for all architectures
> > so that my package will be installed into testing.
> 
> Most autobuilders do not build for non-free, simply because they like to
> keep things prinstine for main. If you want to build your package for
> other archs, check the machines listing and login using your Debian
> login, and build them yourself for upload.

Are the admins receptive to installing non-free libs (e.g. libforms-dev) 
such that we are able to build contrib packages that depend on them?

Peter