I mentioned this on debian-devel and the answer seem to be "not allowed," so I want to double check (and dispute?) this here.
Some sources produce both main & non-main packages. www-sql, for example, produces www-mysql (used to be www-sql) for contrib (since mysql is non-free); currently the www-sql source is in contrib too. Now www-sql can be built for postgresql too, so I will make a binary package www-pgsql. This can go into main because postgresql is DFSG-free, and www-sql itself is GPL. However, dpkg-buildpackage is going to want to build both www-mysql & www-pgsql if they're built off the same source; a main source package can't depend on non-main things to build, so it won't be able to build www-mysql. But www-sql must be in main to build www-pgsql for main. The "fix" seems to be to have two source packages. Is there a better one? dpkg-buildpackage needs multiple binary targets, perhaps. Some other packages were mentioned on debian-devel which have the same problem; ax25utils (has some xforms support), ddd and some others. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
