Robert Millan wrote: > Then there are three components that will be included in the source package > and > not automaticaly built from source. All them will be eventualy sorted out, > but > for now it means the package will be in contrib. I summarise them here:
Hmm, I'm unsure if binary software will be let in contrib. Since it does have source code, just FTBFS, this is something of a grey area. > It's a deb now, but I can switch it if that's more convenient. I'm not > familiar with BYHAND, isn't it a nuissance for ftp-masters? Also, can you > give an example of BYHAND package so that I can have a look and see how it > works? debian-installer is currently one of (the only?) byhand package. See the dpkg-distaddfile call in its rules file. Yes, it's a nuisance to you/ftp-masters, since they have to manually install the byhand component. And for some reason, though it seems easy to automate on a case-by-case basis to me, that's just never happened. -- see shy jo
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