[Debian-med-packaging] [rt.broad #134078] Packaging IGV for Debian [PATCH]

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:12:40PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > That's actually not precise:  To be distributed via the Debian mirror
> > network the existing source code is a precondition.  Without any source
> > code a package will also not go into non-free.  The decision about
> > official (main) Debian or non-free depends from the license of this
> > source code.  If it is DFSG free it can go to main if it does not need
> > any precondition from non-free.  In the later case it has to go into
> > contrib.
> 
> Hi Andreas and Shaun,
> 
> I think that Andreas is confusing the request of having a source package with a
> request of providing the sources. For instance the kernel ???binary blobs??? and
> the NVIDIA proprietary drivers do not provide sources, but exist in the
> non-free section of our archive as source and binary package, where ???source???
> only means a package format that is used to build binary packages: the source
> package can contain pre-compiled binary objects in the case of our non-free
> section.

Charles, you are right in so far that my statement is also not precise.
On the other hand I think for practical reasons ftpmaster might let some
BLOBs which are *really* needed by a large number of Debian users in,
but I guess they will insist on having the source for a "random" Java
library.
 
But thanks for clarifying this anyway

       Andreas.

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