On Monday 10 July 2000, at 9 h 9, the keyboard of david sims
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> Of course, they both require non-free JVMs and JDKs.
As was said here, 'of course' is not obvious. You may want to check.
> So, is this an acceptable practice for Debian?
Basically, if a free package depends on something in non-free, it will be in the
"contrib" section. For instance, a GPL Java program which fails to run with kaffe (or
with gcj) will be in "contrib".
For details, see the many documents in <http://www.debian.org/devel/>.
(This assumes official Debian packages, if you distribute them from an unofficial
source <http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/>, you can do what you
want but I strongly suggest that you follow Debian policy. This is what keeps us from
the evils of RedHat's "contrib", which has nothing to do with Debian's contrib.)
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