Bug#591193: about not building swf files from source
Hi! The initial message about this issue was pretty terse and I hope to offer additional information to you through this message. The issue your package is facing might be divided into two groups: Packages that have the source to the .swf file available (like in .fla or .as form from what I understood) and packages that don't. For those with the source included the package is facing to be potential moved from main to contrib. This is because packages in main are required to only need tools that are available in main to produce their binaries from their sources, and there unfortunately aren't such tools in main (yet, TTBOMK). So moving them to contrib is an option to them for keeping them as they are. For those without source included they have to go either to non-free (if their license allows binary distribution without source) or they have to get removed from the pool in case they are licensed under something like GPL or similar which requires the source to be available, too. One option available to both groups of packages is of course to remove the flash files all together, if that's an option for your package. Hope this helps you for your decision on how to move on. Thanks for your support and effort for Debian in any case! Enjoy! Rhonda -- Lediglich 11 Prozent der Arbeitgeber sind der Meinung, dass jeder Mensch auch ein Privatleben haben sollte. -- http://www.karriere.at/artikel/884/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#591193: about not building swf files from source
Hi! * Gerfried Fuchs rho...@debian.at [100805 12:46]: This is because packages in main are required to only need tools that are available in main to produce their binaries from their sources, and there unfortunately aren't such tools in main (yet, TTBOMK). Citing from then #debian-ftp channel: 04:17:49 raphael dear ftp-masters, could you please make sure that NEW packages do _build_ the .swf files during the build process if they ship any? TIA 04:21:14 Ganneff would there be an easy way to check it? 04:24:59 raphael if they b-depend on haxe, mtasc, or swftools (if it gets uploaded again) they probably do 04:25:43 dondelelcaro probably can be a lintian check So there seems to be three tools available. Best Regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
