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Bug#602838: Add instructions how to mark a non-free package as auto-buildable



Package: developers-reference
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

This should be a section below "5.10 Porting and being ported":

Marking non-free packages as auto-buildable
-------------------------------------------

By default packages from non-free are not built by the autobuilder
network (mostly because the license of the packages could disapprove).

To enable a package to be build you need to perform the following
steps:

- Check whether it's legally allowed and technically possible 
  to auto-build the package
- Add "XS-Autobuild: yes" into the header part of debian/control
- Send an email to nonfree@release.debian.net and explain why the
  package can legitimately and technically be auto-built

Cheers,
        Moritz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

developers-reference depends on no packages.

Versions of packages developers-reference recommends:
ii  debian-policy                 3.9.1.0    Debian Policy Manual and related d

Versions of packages developers-reference suggests:
pn  doc-base                      <none>     (no description available)



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