Re: Build-depending on non-free package
Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> writes:
> [Out of curiosity, is there a reason your name in the From field is
> written in a mixture of Latin and Cyrillic scripts?]
That is my usenet-setup; it just makes it difficult do google my
postings by my name while the name is still human-readable.
> * 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.
The bug is already two years old, and the comment here is "you have to
build it for yourself *at the moment*, sorry" [1]. "Moment" seems to be
an euphemism for "forever", however... The bug survived at least already
one major Debian release.
Since non-free build dependency is one of the major reasons for a
package to go into debian/contrib, I would think this should be solved
at some point? I would gladly help here; however I am quite a strawman
on this topic.
How is this handled with non-free packages? Someone suggested that one
could put the package to non-free to get this solved?
Best
Ole
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690282#20
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