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Re: Providing a stub to avoid problem packaging?



Stephen Peters <portnoy@portnoy.org> writes:

> One workaround I can think of for this case is to provide a pair of
> stub classes that would merely implement the interface that the
> package needs to compile, and add a note to the README.Debian stating
> that the user will have to download their own copy of JSSE if they
> wish to use the SSL functionality.
> 
> Are there any issues with performing this kind of workaround in
> Debian packages?

If you can compile and run a functional package (that is itself free)
with free tools, that's fine, even if it needs non-free components for
some additional non-core functionality.

And finally, there's always contrib ...

-- 
Robbe

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