Re: non-free Packages as build-dependency of contrib / non-free ones & autobuilding

2010-04-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Barth writes: > Hi, > > currently our policy says that main packages must only (build-)depend > on main packages, but contrib and non-free packages could use packages > from contrib and non-free. > > In practice build-dependencies from non-free are not used by the > buildds for two reason

Re: non-free Packages as build-dependency of contrib / non-free ones & autobuilding

2010-04-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Andreas and everybody, I think that it would be acceptable to ask the maintainers of packages for which auto-building is not allowed their opinion about dropping support for them. This would solve the problem entirely, and aren't these packages rare cornercases? I could not think of examples wh

non-free Packages as build-dependency of contrib / non-free ones & autobuilding

2010-04-02 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, currently our policy says that main packages must only (build-)depend on main packages, but contrib and non-free packages could use packages from contrib and non-free. In practice build-dependencies from non-free are not used by the buildds for two reasons: 1. (mostly historical) we need to