Re: one of the many reasons why removing non-free is a dumb idea
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:50:37PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:36:47PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> > Not with respect to the porting, I agree. Concerning the merely
> > building of the binary .deb files... the maintainer only needs how to
> > login on a remote debian system and how to invoke dpkg-buildpackage -
>
> That is not always the case. If the machine in question doesn't have
> the packages necessary to satisfy your build-deps, you're SOL. Not only
> that, but very, very few maintainers of non-free software actually do
> that.
Well, you ask the debian-admin team, and they kindly install the
packages you need, with a small delay.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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