The fetchmail-ssl package (not yet created) is made from the fetchmail
source by supplying the --with-ssl configuration option. It makes no
cryptographic code, though it is linked with libssl09, which lives in
non-US/main. So in which section should the package go?
- contrib, because policy says that contrib is a place for packages
which depend upon non-US
- non-US/main, because it is DFSG-free, yet depends on a non-US/main
package, and we should modify the policy wrt contrib, since we have
now split non-US
- main, because it is DFSG-free, and only depends upon DFSG-free
software, even though some of it is in non-US.
And if we choose the second option, how would one build the package?
Would one duplicate the source, having one copy in main and one in
non-US, with just the one --with-ssl option difference, or could they
both be built from the same source package and somehow uploaded to
different servers? I can see this becoming a more common problem.
Julian
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