Can you put a package in debian main that depends on a non-free software?

Remember, JBoss 3.0 DEPENDS on jdk 1.3.x, and there is no free version of 
that.

Nor is there a .deb for it at all in non-free/contrib.

I don't believe IBM has a 1.3x .deb, and kaffe definately doesn't support it.

As much as I'd like to see JBoss in debian, I can't see how you can put a 
dependancy on a JDK that doesn't exist as far as debian is concerned.

Or are you somehow putting sun/blackdown in the contrib/non-free tree?  


On Wednesday 14 November 2001 03:43pm, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Jason Dillon wrote:
> > Why do you need a planet57 .deb ?
>
> A package in debian needs to be able to build with software in debian. 
> Since planet57 does not exist in debian, I'm making a deb of it.
>
> This way, debian/control can contain a Build-Depends on
> planet57-buildmagic.deb.  This is the automated building I told about.
>
> Additionally, having it all available as a deb, and only using free
> software, allows it to go into debian main, which allows for more wide
> distribution, then if it were to go into contrib or non-free.
>
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