On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 03:48:22PM +0200, Mathieu Slabbinck wrote: > I'm creating a .deb installer for Ubuntu which contains a proprietary > binary. > I was wondering if anyone could point me to the best practice way of doing > this. >From the purely technical point of view the license doesn't matter. If you are going to upload your package into the Debian non-free repo, though, you need to make additional steps, but you didn't mention that.
> Currently I use dh_make to set everything up, but to have everything > legally compliant, I don't think this is the best choice. dh_make just creates some files from templates, nothing more. It's up to you to make sure the result complies with everything you need it to be compliant with. > Any advise on how to accomplish a good proprietary binary is appreciated! If "good" means "compliant with technical parts of Debian policies" then you can use the same docs as for other packages. -- WBR, wRAR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141009103652.ga7...@belkar.wrar.name
