On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 09:49:29PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > >>Can I "Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha]" and still have the > >>source package in main? > >> > >No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). > > > Right, thanks for pointing this out (I need to RTFP :-). So the source > would become contrib, because some of the binaries would need contrib > software to build on one platform. But then, can I put the > gcc/g77-built binaries in main? Hmm, doubtful. Of course you can. gcc/g77 does not require any non-free software. They require a C compiler, but any C compiler, including gcc itself (for example a previous version). And for the bootsatraping problem on a given architecture, it's still possible to use a cross-compiler on another architecture. AFAICT, only the very first free C compiler may have needed a non-free compiler to build it. But then it was possible to recompile it with itself to have it compiled on a free compiler... Regards, Nicolas
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