On 10/9/18 9:08 PM, Michael Kolmodin wrote: > Dear list, [email protected] is the appropriate list for discussions.
> opencpn is on hold, waiting for review of the wvsvg dependency [1]. I > have uploaded a draft packaging of latest release 4.8.6 to salsa > (remarks are welcome!) There are also outstanding issues for unarr. You still need to remove the old packages from mentors, and reply to the comments for 1.0.1: https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-grass-devel/2018-October/073621.html Sponsoring the upload is blocked by those issues. > In the meantime, I have looked into packaging some of the most important > plugins. The issue here is that several of them contains pre-compiled > binaries. The reasons are obvious: these plugins handles various > confidential chart formats. > > On Fedora, I would have to package such plugins outside Fedora, > practically speaking this would mean rpmfusion. > > How are such things handled by Debian? Pre-compiled binaries are not acceptable, if it cannot be built from source it must be excluded from the package. Some kind of plugin manager in the application may be used to download pre-compiled binaries. > Cheers! > --alec That's not from your From headers says. Kind Regards, Bas
