Hi, Michael Meskes wrote: > I'd like to ask the other developers what they think. While I see th elogic > behind your approach I still think LyX should be an official part of Debian. > > What happens if I recompile it statically? Would it go into the standard > tree then?
Being a Debian/m68k user, my opinion is: _Each_ package that is in the standard tree should be compilable for all platforms (ok, there are packages where this does not exactly make sense, like base/mbr on an Amiga, but you get the idea). This also means that for all those packages AND the packages they depend on sources have to be available. LyX requires XForms. XForms is currently not available for m68k (I've started talking to the author, but this might take a while). Even IF we once have XForms for m68k, nobody still has the sources. So I'd say: Both XForms and LyX go into non-free. Compiling/linking LyX statically doesn't change this point, IMHO. Frank
