syslinux: main or contrib?

[Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>]

	Hi.  I am the maintainer of `syslinux', and I wonder if it
should be in main or in contrib...

	It's DFSG free, and it includes sources and binaries in the
package, but if you want to build the binary from the sources, you
need to use one not-DFSG package (nasm, see Bug#14859).

	From the Debian Policy:
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     In addition, the packages in "main"
        * must not require a package outside of "main" for compilation or
          execution (thus, the package may not declare a "Depends" or
          "Recommends" relationship on a non-main package),
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	It doesn't need any package outside of "main" for execution,
but... what's the meaning of "compilation"?  Anyone can get a binary
package from the source package, because the binaries are included in
the sources.  But it cannot be recompiled without `nasm'.

	I was trying to port it to use `as86' (free assembler), but
it's not easy.

	BTW: this is a bit delicate... it's in our `base' section, and
it's `required' (but, IMHO, it shouldn't be...)

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Juan Cespedes