Sven-Ola Tücke a écrit : > Am Sonntag 23 März 2008 10:39:32 schrieb Obey Arthur Liu: > >> Joel C. Salomon a écrit : >> >>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Matthew Toseland >>> >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> > I thought that Update over Mandatory was implemented at this point, >>>> > negating this problem? >>>> >>>> It does if you enable the updater. But that might trip up the >>>> packaging. >>>> >>> On Debian & Ubuntu, package installation scripts can download recent >>> versions of the software, so auto-update shouldn't be too much of a >>> problem. >>> >>> --Joel >>> >> The issue here with maintainer scripts downloading the bulk of the >> software is that it's against Debian policy and against the purpose of >> packages. There are some exceptions but there are for programs that are >> non-free anyway : flashplugin-nonfree, java-package, vmware-package... >> And anyway, nobody sane would run an "aptitude upgrade" daily on cron. >> >> Obey Arthur Liu >> > > Yep - and there's more. Not beeing able to provide a decent makefile to > generate *.o, *.so, or *.a with a simple "apt-get source freenet" will place > you in the non-free section anyhow AFAIK... > > // Sven-Ola > Making a build-everything-from-source build file was part of my project so hopefully this issue can be resolved. There are some exotic dependencies but they are all dfsg-compliant, so it's ok.
Obey Arthur Liu
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