On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 02:31:10PM +0000, Alistair J R Young wrote: > > > Are these acceptable caveats for a source package in contrib, > > No, the package still needs to be built without network, using only its > > contents and packages from Debian. > > You also need to produce a package that can be installed with apt and usable > > after that, as I'm not sure how is your current package supposed to get the > > deps needed to run it. > > I'm a little confused, then: > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#the-contrib-archive-area > told me that packages included in contrib included "free packages which > require contrib, non-free packages or *packages which are not in our > archive at all* for compilation or execution" (emphasis mine); and > wouldn't the dependency on dotnet-sdk-3.1 count under the last of those? AFAIK the working is too careful, and nobody actually uploads contrib packages that download stuff needed for building, even though that's not forbidden by the Policy and the buildds not necessarily disable network access. I may be wrong, of course.
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