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and subject line Re: Bug#987606: Please enable autobuilding of sift
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regarding sift: does not autobuild on buildds
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Source: sift
Version: 4.0.3b-6
Severity: important
Hi Maintainer
This package has 'XS-Autobuild: yes' in debian/control[1], yet it does
not seem to autobuild.
Was step 3 from `Marking non-free packages as auto-buildable`[2] omitted?
Regards
Graham
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/sift/-/blob/master/debian/control#L5
[2]
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#marking-non-free-packages-as-auto-buildable
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Hi Philipp,
thanks a lot, closing this bug hereby.
Kind regards
Andreas.
Am Thu, Oct 22, 2026 at 10:53:44PM +0200 schrieb Philipp Kern:
> Hi,
>
> On 10/20/26 12:59 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > the sift package can be auto-build since the license is permissive about
> > this. I hesitated to ask for auto-building since I was in discussion
> > with upstream about an entirely free license. Unfortunately upstream
> > is not active any more and this discussion faded out. So the package
> > remains in non-free and it would be great to provide it on all release
> > architectures.
>
> I added it to the allowlist.
>
> Kind regards
> Philipp Kern
>
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