Re: Porting of non-free packages

[Richard Braakman <dark@debian.org>]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:49:13AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > This list will be different from the "Architecture:" field, which
> > lists on what platforms the package can be built at all.
> 
> Would the list ever be different from the union of the Architecture:
> field and the architectures that have a publically accessible machine
> running unstable?

Yes; it's possible that the maintainer recruited users with different
architectures to do the builds.

Also, it's possible that one of the publically accessible machines cannot
build a non-free package, because of license (perhaps supplying the
source requires an NDA), or a build dependency on non-free components
that the admins will not install.

Then there are non-free non-US packages, which cannot be build on
machines in the US.

Richard Braakman