Re: rules / restrictions for packages to contrib

2019-02-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Sat, 16 Feb 2019, Thomas Finneid wrote: > does that mean that a contrib src package can contain pre-downloaded > dependencies and tools to be able to compile the source? No, that would be non-free, at best. In contrib you can have packages that would otherwise fit into main but have dependenc

Re: rules / restrictions for packages to contrib

2019-02-16 Thread seamlik
> does that mean that a contrib src package can contain pre-downloaded > dependencies and tools to be able to compile the source? I think such source package (bundled with prebuilt binaries) must go into the "non-free" archive. And then any other packages depending on this one may go into "cont

rules / restrictions for packages to contrib

2019-02-16 Thread Thomas Finneid
Hi I am just getting to know things, so just a quick question. in reference to the scla / sbt upgrade discussion threads. I read through th e Debian policy and specifically about the contrib archive (https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#the-contrib-archive-area) does th

Re: old version of scala

2019-02-16 Thread Thomas Finneid
On 15.02.2019 18:49, Markus Koschany wrote: Frederic did the bootstrap part wrong. Unfortunately nobody corrected him in time before he tried to use the prebuilt upstream binaries for bootstrapping sbt. Just ignore the current rules file. We have to come up with something better. Ok, I can t