Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:08:18AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > As a maintainer of several contrib packages that depend on XForms, I can > > say that autobuilders _don't_ process contrib at all. I've had to ask > > admins to temporarily install libforms-dev so that I could build the > > packages on non-i386 arches; some of them don't want to. I've had to file > > many bugs against ftp.debian.org to get old versions of non-i386 binary > > packages deleted from the archive to let packages migrate to testing. It a > > big pain. Maintaining a contrib package is more work than maintaining a > > non-free one! I don't recommend it. > > > > Hopefully, this will end soon. XForms is _supposed_ to become free very > > soon. Then lyx will be in main too, and powerpc will be uptodate. > > Thank God. I have one XForms-dependent package too (not an important one > by any stretch of the imagination, though), and had to do the same thing > for various architectures. I was actually thinking about orphaning it in > favour of somebody who had time to convert it to FLTK.
FLTK is C++ only. Show stopper for me. > Do you think it'll be free before optional packages freeze for woody? I would think so. The XForms author is busy with real life; that's the main hurdle. He had committed to this before and not come through, but never with a public announcement like he did a few weeks ago. You can be sure I'll upload an XForms package for main as soon as it does. Peter