On Monday 4 September 2000, at 2 h 22, the keyboard of Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> it acceptable to use the upstream binary tarball as the .orig for a Debian > source package, as it is architecture-independent? Or must it compile from > the > Java source? If the package is in 'non-free', you don't even need the sources. IMHO (but IANAL), for a package to get in 'main', you HAVE TO be able to compile it from the sources. For programs written in C, it goes without saying, but it seems some Debian packagers forget this, because upstream Java packages usually come with the binary, a binary which is often very difficult to regenerate (which reminds me the time of Ultrix, where Digital accepted to ship the sources, but they were almost impossible to compile, if you wanted to reboot your Vax with a patched version).
