Re: Is it tolerated to have compiled libraries in a package?

[Eric Lavarde <Eric.Lavarde@bawue.de>]

Hi,

package is anyway already in contrib. So OK!?

Eric

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:35:22AM -0800, Matt Brubeck wrote:
>
> > Eric Lavarde wrote:
>
>
> > > the new version of FreeMind is coming with a whole lot of pre-compiled
> > > libraries (jar files to be precise). Some of these libraries already
> > > exist in Debian, so fine; one isn't free but I can do without, so
> > > acceptable (it's the online help, so it's not so nice, but well); and
> > > three are not (yet) packaged in Debian, so what? [...]
>
>
> > > Is it acceptable to keep the pre-compiled libraries as part of the
> > > freemind package until someone creates these packages?
>
>
> > No, sorry.  This would violate DFSG 2 ("The program must include source
> > code").  It would also prevent the security team from easily patching
> > those libraries.
>
>
> Which is to say, that it's allowed, but such a package cannot go to main.

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