Re: sources to both contrib & main packages

1998-02-24 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 24 Feb 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > Hmm, my reading of policy is that packages refers to is .deb > Debian packages, not sources or the so called ``source packages'', > which are never mentioned in policy. Huh? See section `2.4 Source packages'. > We bundle upstream

Re: sources to both contrib & main packages

1998-02-24 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > 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, s

Re: sources to both contrib & main packages

1998-02-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hamish> The problem I see is that with the source in main, although Hamish> you can build www-pgsql just fine, calling "debian/rules Hamish> binary" would have to make www-mysql too (if the same sources Hamish> are to be used), and maki

Re: sources to both contrib & main packages

1998-02-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Thanks for your reply Manoj. On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 12:35:36AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hmm, my reading of policy is that packages refers to is .deb > Debian packages, not sources or the so called ``source packages'', > which are never mentioned in policy. > > We bundle up

Re: sources to both contrib & main packages

1998-02-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Hmm, my reading of policy is that packages refers to is .deb Debian packages, not sources or the so called ``source packages'', which are never mentioned in policy. We bundle upstream sources, diffs, and a .dcs file, but those are not packages. __

sources to both contrib & main packages

1998-02-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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-s