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). > > > Right, thanks for pointing this out (I need to RTFP :-). So the source > would become contrib, because some of the binaries would need contrib > software to build on one platform. But then, can I put the > gcc/g77-built binaries in main? Hmm, doubtful.
No. > I guess the proper way to do this would be to assemble a separate > contrib "petsc-dec" source package. But then, the additional > petsc_2.1.0.orig.tar.gz would take another ~7 megs on the mirrors! Correct. > So maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all. I'll just leave it > as-is, with instructions for building the faster version with ccc/cfal. Sounds good. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Debian GNU/Linux Developer Queen Mary, Univ. of London see http://people.debian.org/~jdg/ http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~jdg/ or http://www.debian.org/ Visit http://www.thehungersite.com/ to help feed the hungry Also: http://www.helpthehungry.org/