Re: main or contrib?

2006-10-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:25:23AM +0100, Bas Wijnen a écrit : > > > Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does it mean that the upload of packages which can not be built or used > > using commands like dpkg, apt, or aptitude, as opposed to make, is > > discouraged? > > I don't qu

Re: main or contrib?

2006-10-30 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 08:13:38AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 03:30:50PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard a ?crit : > > Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Examples of packages which would be included in contrib are: > > > * free packages which require [...] packag

Re: main or contrib?

2006-10-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 03:30:50PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard a écrit : > Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Examples of packages which would be included in contrib are: > > * free packages which require [...] packages which > > are not in our archive at all for compilation or exec

Re: main or contrib?

2006-10-26 Thread Thibaut Paumard
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:48:24 +0900 Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 02:25:31PM +0200, Bas Wijnen a écrit : > from the policy: > > > 2.2.2 The contrib category > [...] > > I am therefore wondering wether this does not

Re: main or contrib?

2006-10-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 02:25:31PM +0200, Bas Wijnen a écrit : > On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 10:58:37PM +0400, Al Nikolov wrote: > > Hello, all mentors! > > > > Please clarify for me, in which section should go a GPL-licensed package, > > which is quite unusable without (but technically not Depends on

Re: main or contrib?

2006-10-26 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 10:58:37PM +0400, Al Nikolov wrote: > Hello, all mentors! > > Please clarify for me, in which section should go a GPL-licensed package, > which is quite unusable without (but technically not Depends on), er, > obscure blobs of data, usually gathered by a way of sniffing dat

main or contrib?

2006-10-21 Thread Al Nikolov
Hello, all mentors! Please clarify for me, in which section should go a GPL-licensed package, which is quite unusable without (but technically not Depends on), er, obscure blobs of data, usually gathered by a way of sniffing data flow between a proprietary application and a hardware device, and th