Free Ekanayaka wrote: > |--==> Stephen Gran writes: > > SG> dssi is already in Debian, and doesn't use non-free software to build. > SG> For the other, I have no idea, but if it really needs non-free software > SG> to build, it's not suitable for main, at least. > > And indeed I was thinking to contrib, but I'm wondering if packages in > contrib are allowed to build depend on non-free headers which are > *not* in Debian due to license issues (this is the case of the VST SDK > which I mentioned). > > Cleary this would imply that the package can't be build from source by > build daemons, but should be built manually by the maintainer, who has > agreed the VST SDK license and downloaded the headers.
Yes, a package in contrib may require things which are not in Debian at all; for example, many Java packages in contrib require the Sun JDK, which Debian cannot distribute even in non-free. Not being able to autobuild is also OK; that's expected for many packages in contrib and non-free. Given that the package is specifically designed to run VST plugins from Windows, it seems pointless to go to a lot of effort to attempt to get it into main if most people will be using it with proprietary software anyway. - Josh Triplett
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