Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julien BLACHE wrote: >> Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I think we need a change in policy for handling cases where free >>> software requires free software in order to compile which is, non the >>> less, non buildable on the same platform. >> >> It exists already, it's called the contrib section of the archive. > > No. The contrib section is for free software that requires non-free software.
Policy 2.2.2 [...] Examples of packages which would be included in contrib are: * free packages which require contrib, non-free packages or packages which are not in our archive at all for compilation or execution, and [...] > However, all is free software in this thread. The problem does not come > from the license but from the difficulty to setup a correct build environment > (due to cross compilation to another architecture or another platform) Yeah, right, seems to fit. JB. -- Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian, because code matters more Debian & GNU/Linux Developer | <http://www.debian.org> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]