Re: Packaging a .NET Core application & pbuilder
On Thu, 2020-08-20 at 11:40 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 12:09:08AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > libdbd-oracle-perl is such an example; it's in contrib because it's
> > free software itself but needs oracle software which is not even in
> > Debian. Typically someone builds it by installing the needed stuff in
> > a local cowbuilder etc. chroot and then uploads the binary packages.
> So its next upload will never migrate?
Packages in contrib or non-free might violate rules that apply to main
and are usually enforced by the testing migration tool. For example
source packages might not be buildable by the buildd network for
various reasons such as build-depending on packages not in the archive;
the same applies for binary packages.
So the testing migration has exceptions to handle this. They will
probably also be used to allow binary uploads by the maintainer.
Still, having to first install some other package from some third-party
repository as proposed here for the systemd-genie package before being
able to use or build software is not very user-friendly and also makes
it harder to find sponsors interested in reviewing and uploading the
package.
Ansgar
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