On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:55:49 -0500, Luke T.Shumaker <[email protected]> wrote: > The package apache-ant is libre. However, it is *not* built by the > PKGBUILD; since all the binaries are Java, and platform-independant, > the PKGBUILD just grabs the precompiled binaries from the ant site. > > From my understanding, we don't allow this. (And maybe neither does > Arch?) > > So: > 1. Is this allowed in Arch, should we report it upstream? > 2. If it is allowed in Arch, is it worth us fixing it, or do we just > let it slide? > 3. If we do let it slide, do we hold our own packages to the > "build-from-source" requirement, in cases of platform-independant > packages? > > From a progmatic standpoint, bundling up Google's binary of > closure-compiler would make my life easier. > > However, even in these cases (Java), we risk programs inadvertantly > being non-compilable with a free compiler. For example, guava, a > "statically linked" (or the Java equivalent) dependany of > closure-compiler trips the OpenJDK6 javac's bug 100167
this is important, also for hosting sources. can you come up with a build from source PKGBUILD for it? i think we should push this upstream soon. are there more packages built like this? D: > > > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100167 > > In this case the patch is trivial (and in Debian), but I vaguely > recall finding another case tripping the same bug sometime in the last > week, but can't recall. > > ~ Luke Shumaker > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.parabolagnulinux.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >
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