Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-25 Thread Nicolas Boullis
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 08:49:30AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Right, but it seems policy does not allow a contrib source package to > put binaries in both contrib and main. It's a policy issue, not a > technical one: if a package is "tainted" with a non-free build-dep or > dep for a sin

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-25 Thread Nicolas Boullis
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 08:49:30AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Right, but it seems policy does not allow a contrib source package to > put binaries in both contrib and main. It's a policy issue, not a > technical one: if a package is "tainted" with a non-free build-dep or > dep for a si

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Nicolas Boullis wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 09:49:29PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Can I "Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha]" and still have the source package in main? No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). Right, thanks for pointing this out (I need to RTFP :-). So the source

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Nicolas Boullis wrote: >On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 09:49:29PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Can I "Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha]" and still have the source package in main? >>>No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). >>> >>Right, thanks for pointing this out (I need to RTFP

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-25 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 09:49:29PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > James Troup wrote: > > >Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>Can I "Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha]" and still have the > >>source package in main? > >> > >No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). > > > Righ

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-25 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 09:49:29PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > James Troup wrote: > > >Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>Can I "Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha]" and still have the > >>source package in main? > >> > >No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). > > > Rig

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread Nicolas Boullis
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 09:49:29PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > >>Can I "Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha]" and still have the > >>source package in main? > >> > >No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). > > > Right, thanks for pointing this out (I need to RTFP :-). So the source > would

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
James Troup wrote: Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Can I "Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha]" and still have the source package in main? No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). Right, thanks for pointing this out (I need to RTFP :-). So the source would become contrib, b

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread Nicolas Boullis
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 09:49:29PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > >>Can I "Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha]" and still have the > >>source package in main? > >> > >No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). > > > Right, thanks for pointing this out (I need to RTFP :-). So the source > woul

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread James Troup
Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can I "Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha]" and still have the > source package in main? No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). -- James

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
James Troup wrote: >Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Can I "Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha]" and still have the >>source package in main? >> >No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). > Right, thanks for pointing this out (I need to RTFP :-). So the source would become con

Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Having got the non-free cfal (Compaq Fortran for Linux Alpha, yes, the acronym is backwards :-) compiler to work using my contrib Debian packaging (realplayer-style RPM unpacker), I built PETSc using it, and WOW, is it FAST! On a 600 MHz ev5, it is more than 2.5 times as fast per

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread James Troup
Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can I "Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha]" and still have the > source package in main? No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Having got the non-free cfal (Compaq Fortran for Linux Alpha, yes, the acronym is backwards :-) compiler to work using my contrib Debian packaging (realplayer-style RPM unpacker), I built PETSc using it, and WOW, is it FAST! On a 600 MHz ev5, it is more than 2.5 times as fast per