Re: Main depending on non-US/main
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 05:05:05PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> - contrib, because policy says that contrib is a place for packages
> which depend upon non-US
I don't like this one :)
> - 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
This is good, if you can survive if the package doesn't get on every
official Debian CD set.
> - main, because it is DFSG-free, and only depends upon DFSG-free
> software, even though some of it is in non-US.
I like this one, but it would be breaking archive consistency.
> 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 don't think the latter is possible.
See `dpkg -l \*-ssl` sources for examples, I guess.
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