On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Michael Meskes wrote: > Ian Jackson writes: > > The aims of the policy detailed below are: > > * That any user be able to rebuild any package in the official > > Debian distribution from the original source plus our patches. > > Ahem, this isn't exact enough IMO. With a standard Debian system I am able > to rebuild LyX.
But not "from the original source plus our patches". That's the crucial point. > That's exactly the point. I cannot recompile any package that uses Motif > since I don't have it. But I can recompile LyX since we have an xforms > package available. We don't have an xforms package *freely* available. If some Motif vendor decided to start selling packages called motif and motif-dev, we certainly wouldn't consider moving motif apps into the main distribution. Those new packages wouldn't be freely available. Guy
