Hello, On October 25, 2017 5:03:23 PM EDT, Maximilian Haeussler <[email protected]> wrote: >Andreas: If clustal, cufflinks, phylip, paml and many other >bioinformatics packages are just fine in the non-free repo, couldn't >we do the same with blat? > >http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/c/ >http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/e/ >http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/p/ >
Just to clarify Andreas' statement about it not being allowed in Debian. non-free is not technically part of Debian: packages are not autobuilt there, no reproducibility checking or continuous integration is done on them, and even any free-software package that depends on it is similarly excluded from Debian main. About the lack of autobuilding--this means only whatever binaries the package maintainer uploads will be available, and any rebuilds that need to happen must be done manually by the maintainer. For non-free, the software just needs to be legally redistributable regards Afif
