Hello, I'm the upstream maintainer on a PAM module, pam_smbpass, which I'm interested in packaging for Debian. The catch is that the module requires that a complete (well, nearly complete) copy of the Samba source code be available at build time. For questions of maintenance and bandwidth, I've chosen not to include the Samba source in the tarball; I find that automatically downloading the Samba code during the build process works just as well for upstream purposes.
The question is, is it acceptable to do this in a Debian package? There are certainly 'installer' packages around which will download and package non-free software for use with Debian... but this is non-free. Is it acceptable to have a Debian package which build-depends on curl, and downloads the Samba source as part of the build process? Or do I need to do this a different way, e.g. using Samba source that's already available in the Debian archives, or including the Samba tree in my package (as part of the diff !?) Any advice, pointers, etc. are welcome. Regards, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
