Re: Source section (debian/control)
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 08:40:41PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question: In which case, a package can go into main or must go
> into contrib/non-free is described in the Debian policy. But when do I
> need to put the source into contrib/non-free? The situation: I have a
> GPL licensed, python based application, which needs python2.3-profiler
> (non-free), so the binary package can't go into main. Therefor i will
> put it into contrib. Do I have to assign the source as 'contrib' too?
Technically, it doesn't matter. Whatever you use in debian/control is
not copied to .dsc (it doesn't have section & priority header), it's
just used as default for the binary packages in the next stanza's of
debian/control.
Sources do have a priority and section, but at the moment, that's
exclusively set by ftp-master. It seems to me it'd be nicer to have
those fields in the .dsc indeed and then also checked by the ftp-master
scripts, but that's definitely a post-sarge issue.
--Jeroen
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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