-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:49:06AM +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > On 2016-10-13 22:39, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > On 14458 March 1977, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > > > If I package a compiler and put y.tab.c in the package, drop > > > grammar.y in d/m-s/, would it be OK or not? > > > > If you come up with a good reason for it, yes. But I doubt you would > > find one here. > > Let's say I need a special tool to compile it, e.g. > bison-priscus, and I don't want to package it for Debian?
Then the build tool is not in Debian, which means that the program can be in contrib, but not in main. > > > If I don't even check that bison actually can process the file, would > > > it still be OK? > > > > No. > > You as the maintainer have to guarantee that the file is buildable with > > tools available in main. You can't if you don't ever check this. > > IIUC, this is exactly the situation of epoch.js in > knot-resolver-module-http. I assume, it has not been build from > its original *.coffee sources, because the make tool (gulp) is > not in Debian. So the package must go into contrib? Yes, until the build tool is packaged (or replaced by something that is packaged, such as cat) that is true. Thanks, Bas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJYALUsAAoJEJzRfVgHwHE6pPgP+wQQwLEQWvQMYcJt9OmEpss/ JdZ4buIe3TsBipIk1yJh9n6YpkWxsPd8tkwfISbNedW4Cy2AsZe8T7lktI4G6jqr XeDsGUtu8IIU5V6s3LRQX/0eurN9jKuUVhoY0V4LgHTC4MwPR8mFmZ9a9PicWZNx C16N453qwiuM7fT5xpsssIzcpF30jrxQj+oNRpyonavu2k0q8n790cvz4pWHjNe0 Kzq1soPOGgcftOR6PXHL+ypPma6KUN2IaXyGkZB6QPXiYsiJWKN/xKom+/UzkiXd G6B4D1J0jLk3PX2mvTd7nzJY+U5S1Jn8z5s9Z5/5BhOd94ZxjH2RlBHwv8Y/PBTe tp+ZLpo0obIkkgWh8a6IxkmsHmpYF++Zz6wa21UYx0Rr0emAmfkl22cIlDByLUpp XhfAuxG6DtDffV686otrSjNagx5PTr8E3aZFqCXMbaeD2zMQFN/auS14HYH/jRDN IJWl30s2zjIiyVCHgOl6WZXGTwJbGeKYka60lo13RXRaLS3pICYRybJYykY39+Qi EV78FKBjx+jO9e1exw8A/CTj6mI2zXjnEmIURKIaxS6lUyF8icPK91WBdh4OxV56 P66OriG7s+Lz1TcLFP6LG6y3+hW/8eLJytav0MFQV6Y67aZG/hztJPG56aGYKKGw 7+V7MkoG0YptzSPaW9HH =C/8Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
