Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 22 Dec 1997, Scott Hanson wrote: > > > (The upstream source also includes perl libraries, but I'd rather > > package these from CPAN.) > > The perl lib that's included in the mysql distribution is much different > from the DBI version from CPAN. I'm using the DBI version, but I guess > some people out there still use the mysql version. Perhaps we should keep > it in some mysql-perl package?
Actually, the new upstream version now includes the DBI libraries instead of the old mysql lib. Both libs are in CPAN, though. My idea was to create a new package for the old libs. > > > The server package will continue to be in non-free. The client is GPLd > > and can go into contrib, and I think the other sub-packages can go > > into contrib as well. > > Well, there was a discussion on debian-policy some time ago about such a > setup. The problem is that all packages are built from a single source > package (I think) and that package will have to be in non-free. Thus, we > would not have full source for the contrib packages. > > We haven't decided yet how to handle this situation. True... there is only one source package. It's probably best to keep everything in non-free. -- Scott Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Johmsweg 9a, D-21266 Jesteburg, Germany PGP Key ID: 90A8A14D work: Inter-Research Science Publisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .