On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 05:43:15PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > > It requires manually vetoing which packages from non-free are safe to > > be used as contrib build dependencies (much like we manually veto what > > packages from non-free can be autobuilt). > > Why would we need to manually select them?
We don't know what makes them non-free. The contents of the license may have restrictions that impose legal risk. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/11/msg00012.html [snip] > > it will likely require autobuilder tooling changes to check for a > > "xs-autobuild: yes" flag when resolving dependencies from non-free, or > > something to that effect. Recentish thread: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/09/msg00044.html [snip] > We want to provide a binary distribution to our end users, and we want > to have best possible experience, right? We want to provide a libre / *free* distribution to our end users. Anything else is just tolerated / hosted. non-free is *not* Debian (the distribution), it's simply hosted on Debian project infra. Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> | Proud Debian Developer : :' : 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~paultag `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag/conduct-statement.txt
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