Re: package mgltools-sff BD-Uninstallable
On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 07:14:04PM +0200, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
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> On Sun, 4 Aug 2013, Julien Cristau wrote:
> >>Ok, but was does that mean for my package. Isn't it allowed to let a
> >>non-free package depend on another non-free package anymore?
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> >It's allowed, it just won't be autobuilt.
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> Hmm, the package already has this XS-Autobuild stuff in
> debian/control. The buildd even tries to build it, but complains
> that a dependency is not available. But that could not be true!?
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> Or do I interpret this message wrong:
> mgltools-sff (= 1.5.7~rc1~cvs.20130519-2) build-depends on missing:
> - mgltools-bhtree
It was not given to the buildd. This is a check where the
Build-Depends are checked against what is in the Packages' files,
before the buildd tries it. This is done using edos-distcheck.
The difference is that there used to be 1 Packages files that
give the buildds access to what's in incoming that contained all
architectures and contained main, contrib and non-free.
Those are now all seperate files like the normal archive.
The buildds themself should now all also be configured to have
a deb-src line for non-free, but only have a deb line for main
and contrib. So even if we moved it out of the BD-Uninstallable
state, it wouldn't get build.
I'm not sure what policy that the debian.org hosts have for
installing and running non-free software, but I understand
that this is problematic, and I think we should at least ask
DSA first before doing so.
Kurt
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