Re: Proposed amendment (compiling non-free packages from source in main)

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

Jim Pick wrote:
> Here's a middle ground solution:
> 
>    Have an optional "debconfigure" script that would be run before
>    running dpkg-buildpackage.  You would pass options to it, and it
>    would generate the appropriate debian/rules file.

It seems more consistent with current practice to define
"build-nonfree" and "binary-nonfree" targets that build the packages
that require non-free components in addition to the normal set of
packages.

dpkg-buildpackage can then have an option to invoke these instead of
the regular ones.

Of course, these targets only make sense for packages in main.
Their existence should be optional.  Is there a way to query make
for the existence of a target?

Richard Braakman


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