Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I wasn't suggesting a new source package. I assumed (and this has been >> > confirmed in this thread) that it is possible to create a contrib binary >> > package from a source package in main. >> >> Where has this been confirmed? > > I've seen a response to > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/05/msg00324.html, but it isn't in > the archive and I've already deleted it from my local mail box. Perhaps it > was only off-list. Anyway, why wouldn't it be possible to put a Section: > contrib/... in the binary package part of the control file? Other overrides > are possible there anyway. Can someone confirm that this works? > >> I was convinced of the contrary since main, contrib and non-free are top >> directories in the pool and I expected them to be self containing >> (sources+binaries). > > That sounds plausible as well.
According to http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/alsa-tools/alsa-tools_1.0.11-1.diff.gz the alsa-tools source package creates: +Source: alsa-tools +Section: sound [...] +Package: alsa-tools [...] +Package: alsa-tools-gui [...] +Package: alsa-firmware-loaders +Section: contrib/sound and this binary package is also not in http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/alsa-tools/, but in the corresponding contrib directory. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
