On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:05:29AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:53:44PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:19:21PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > > hi developers, > > > this is my first message, i hope it's appropriate. there's talk going > > > on on the users mailing list about lame and its absence from the > > > package tree. i would like to adopt the lame mp3 encoder as a debian > > > package and was wondering if there are any objections? is there > > > already a maintainer? can this packet be debianized? > > > > It can be debianised, but it can't be included in debian, since it can't > > be legally redistributed in binary form. > > What do you mean ?? There are lots of packages included in debian in source > form ... Why don't you read the webpage??? Why does everything have to be exlained again and again when somebody made the effort and explained it on a webpage? wnpp ist the first page you should look at when you want to package something. And its been there for ages, not really hard to find.
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package Christian -- http://people.debian.org/~cts/