Re: What constitutes a package for Policy

2004-02-04 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:23:11PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: Hi, I need clarification on what a package is. For example, the policy states (2.2.1): Maybe I posted to the wrong list :) debian-policy might be better suited to answer this question. - Adam

Re: What constitutes a package for Policy

2004-02-04 Thread Joel Baker
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:23:11PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: Hi, I need clarification on what a package is. For example, the policy states (2.2.1): In addition, the packages in main * must not require a package outside of main for compilation or execution (thus, the

Re: What constitutes a package for Policy

2004-02-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:02:15AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: For example, a jikes has a Recommends as follows: Recommends: jikes-sablevm | jikes-gij | jikes-classpath | jikes-kaffe | jikes-sun Now, all of these packages, but jikes-sun, are in main (or will be once uploaded). Does

Re: What constitutes a package for Policy

2004-02-04 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040204 17:25]: Unless Policy has changed since the last time I looked, I understood that the consensus was that both Depends: and Recommends: must be satisfiable within main, due to the behavior of certain packaging front-ends which will pull in

Re: What constitutes a package for Policy

2004-02-04 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:10:31AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:02:15AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: For example, a jikes has a Recommends as follows: Recommends: jikes-sablevm | jikes-gij | jikes-classpath | jikes-kaffe | jikes-sun Now, all of these

Re: Licence query

2004-02-04 Thread Roger Leigh
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 03 Feb 2004, Roger Leigh wrote: It appears to be a BSD-style licence, with all UCB references removed, Yeah, that's pretty much what it is. but I'd just like to check with you that it is DFSG-free since it is a different licence, and IANAL.