Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:38:49PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: [...] >> Just read the mails of these both threads and learn why we have >> not yet autobuilders for non-free. IMHO the main issue is that >> "nobody really _did_ it". > > There are two issues at hand that explain why there is no non-free > autobuilder: > > * Most people who could set up one (because they have the hardware and > the skillz) do not want to [...] > * Packages in main are required to be DFSG-free [...] > Therefore, anyone interested in building non-free > would need to maintain a list of packages that do not have such > problematic restrictions. TTBOMK, this has not happened.
This is nothing new, it has already been discussed in the thread Andreas referenced. Something new would be an answer to my question whether it's acceptable to build non-free packages on the Debian machines. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)