Re: Build-depending on non-free package

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

[Out of curiosity, is there a reason your name in the From field is 
written in a mixture of Latin and Cyrillic scripts?]

* Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr <debian-devel@liska.ath.cx>, 2014-08-15, 10:15:
> > > I've uploaded a package to contrib [1], that needs a non-free package 
> > > (pgplot5) as build dependency. While it builds nicely on my local 
> > > pbuilder (after adding non-free), it fails to build on the buildds 
> > > [2].
> >
> > This is bug #690282.
>
> Since in debian-devel has an ongoing discussion about source-only 
> uploads: how will these cases handled then?

In the worst case, your sponsor(s) will have to upload source and binary 
packages separately. Binary-only uploads are not going away.

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Jakub Wilk