On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 04:44:15PM +0100, Juan Cespedes wrote: > Hi. I am the maintainer of `syslinux', and I wonder if it > should be in main or in contrib... > > It's DFSG free, and it includes sources and binaries in the > package, but if you want to build the binary from the sources, you > need to use one not-DFSG package (nasm, see Bug#14859). > > From the Debian Policy: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > In addition, the packages in "main" > * must not require a package outside of "main" for compilation or > execution (thus, the package may not declare a "Depends" or > "Recommends" relationship on a non-main package), > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > It doesn't need any package outside of "main" for execution, > but... what's the meaning of "compilation"? Anyone can get a binary > package from the source package, because the binaries are included in > the sources. But it cannot be recompiled without `nasm'.
nasm is in the main distribution. Should it not be? > I was trying to port it to use `as86' (free assembler), but > it's not easy. > > BTW: this is a bit delicate... it's in our `base' section, and > it's `required' (but, IMHO, it shouldn't be...) I agree with this. Adam Klein
