Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> wrote on Thursday, August 20, 2020 3:08 AM: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 02:15:07AM +0000, Paul Wise wrote: > > > I'm currently working on packaging a .NET Core utility for contrib > > > > I note that .NET is Free Software these days, so you should be able to > > package both for main instead of using contrib. > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Core > > https://github.com/dotnet/core > But only if all deps are actually packaged. If binaries are used instead, that > would be contrib. Microsoft apparently have a repository (https://github.com/dotnet/source-build) set up specifically to make .NET Core source tarballs that are compliant with that particular packaging rule. I'm experimenting with it now to get a feel for how it works. (Not like I woke up this morning planning to become the .NET Core package maintainer, but not like I woke up this morning planning not to, either...) Regards, Alistair
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