Yep - and there's more. Not beeing able to provide a decent makefile to generate *.o, *.so, or *.a with a simple "apt-get source freenet" will place you in the non-free section anyhow AFAIK...
// Sven-Ola Am Sonntag 23 M?rz 2008 10:39:32 schrieb Obey Arthur Liu: > Joel C. Salomon a ?crit : > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Matthew Toseland > > > > <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > >> > I thought that Update over Mandatory was implemented at this point, > >> > negating this problem? > >> > >> It does if you enable the updater. But that might trip up the > >> packaging. > > > > On Debian & Ubuntu, package installation scripts can download recent > > versions of the software, so auto-update shouldn't be too much of a > > problem. > > > > --Joel > > The issue here with maintainer scripts downloading the bulk of the > software is that it's against Debian policy and against the purpose of > packages. There are some exceptions but there are for programs that are > non-free anyway : flashplugin-nonfree, java-package, vmware-package... > And anyway, nobody sane would run an "aptitude upgrade" daily on cron. > > Obey Arthur Liu
