On 09/10/18 21:17, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >> Dear list, > > > 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
I actually missed this. Will look into it. That said, it does not block opencpn. >> 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. Yes, they must be separate packages - as a starter, they are separate upstreams That said, at a glance it looks possible to add such packages to the non-free section. If so, what needs to be considered in such a scenario? Or did I just get this wrong? --a
