* Dimitri John Ledkov (x...@debian.org) [140429 23:34]: > On 29 April 2014 21:02, Thomas Koch <tho...@koch.ro> wrote: > > On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 02:26:49 AM Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> Recently there have been a number of questions about source requirements > >> for the Debian archive. The FTP master view of this are based on both > >> item 1 of the social contract (Debian will remain 100% free) and item 2 of > >> the DFSG (The program must include source code ...). We consider source > >> packages to be part of the Debian system and as such all files in source > >> packages must come with their source as required by the DFSG (and be > >> distributable under a free license). > > > > For clarity: Is it OK for languageCompilerX, which happens to be written in > > languageX, to ship a compiled binary of languageCompilerX in the source > > package for languageCompilerX? > > > > of course not, do a bootstrap each time, or provide a separate > bootstrap package in the archive, such that other people can reproduce > the boostrap process. circular build-dependency on one-self is always > bad.
You mean like e.g. gcc should be able to bootstrap without gcc? (I would consider it ok for at least all compilers in build-essential.) Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140429214332.gy20...@mails.so.argh.org
