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Re: purging upstream source tarball, or not?



Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:

>> Source packages in main can build binary packages in contrib.  The
>> licensing requirements for the two areas are the same, so no problem is
>> created by that.

> Stuff related to nvidia-cg cannot be built using only tools in main so
> in this case the Build-Depends cannot be satisfied by only packages in
> main and therefore the nvidia-cg related stuff needs to be moved to a
> separate source package. A good way around this is to port to GLSL,
> IIRC the nVidia drivers translate GLSL to the nVidia Cg stuff.

Ah, okay, yes.  That would do it.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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