Re: Section for a new package

2005-07-01 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
On Thursday 30 of June 2005 12:13, Antony Gelberg wrote: Hi all, I have been thinking about packaging DBDesigner, a GUI tool for database design. It's GPL but it requires Borland Kylix to compile. I've read the policy doc, but am still confused. Is this contrib, non-free, or not suitable

Section for a new package

2005-06-30 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, I have been thinking about packaging DBDesigner, a GUI tool for database design. It's GPL but it requires Borland Kylix to compile. I've read the policy doc, but am still confused. Is this contrib, non-free, or not suitable for inclusion in Debian?

Re: Section for a new package

2005-06-30 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:13:42AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: I have been thinking about packaging DBDesigner, a GUI tool for database design. It's GPL but it requires Borland Kylix to compile. Is this contrib, non-free, or not suitable for inclusion in Debian? contrib -- Lionel --

Re: Section for a new package

2005-06-30 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:15:24PM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 07:57:44PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: I have been thinking about packaging DBDesigner, a GUI tool for database design. It's GPL but it requires Borland Kylix to compile. Is this contrib,

Re: Section for a new package

2005-06-30 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:16:17PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote: I have a package [1] (gh - Generic Haskell [2]) with a GPL licence which builds from generated sources with the tools available in main. The generated sources and the source from which it is generated are in the upstream tarball,

Re: Section for a new package

2005-06-30 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 07:57:44PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: I have been thinking about packaging DBDesigner, a GUI tool for database design. It's GPL but it requires Borland Kylix to compile. Is this contrib, non-free, or not suitable for inclusion in Debian? contrib Really?

Re: Section for a new package

2005-06-30 Thread Arjan Oosting
Op do, 30-06-2005 te 20:59 +0200, schreef Lionel Elie Mamane: On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:16:17PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote: I have a package [1] (gh - Generic Haskell [2]) with a GPL licence which builds from generated sources with the tools available in main. The generated sources and

Re: Section for a new package

2005-06-30 Thread Arjan Oosting
I have a similar question. I have a package [1] (gh - Generic Haskell [2]) with a GPL licence which builds from generated sources with the tools available in main. The generated sources and the source from which it is generated are in the upstream tarball, but to get the generated sources from

Re: Section for a new package

2005-06-30 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:21:42PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote: Op do, 30-06-2005 te 20:59 +0200, schreef Lionel Elie Mamane: On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:16:17PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote: I have a package [1] (gh - Generic Haskell [2]) with a GPL licence which builds from generated sources

Re: Section for a new package

2005-06-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I have already packaged uuagc, but I can not package frown yet, because it isn't released yet. If uuagc is included in main I still need to wait on frown although it is only needed for one file (which never changes anyway), right? Yes, you do. You

Re: Section for a new package

2005-06-30 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Bernd Eckenfels wrote: You can ship the generated file instead. No, that's not source code. To be in main, you must be able to build from source using only tools in main. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Section for a new package

2005-06-30 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: that I think of it, the last condition is pretty necessary for any kind of security support... It may thus be a hard requirement rather than it'd be better. There isn't any guarantee of security support for non-free at least, and I'd guess contrib as well. -- To