[Debian-olpc-devel] Sugar-etoys-activity : depend being non-free
Luke Faraone
luke at faraone.cc
Thu Aug 5 19:35:49 UTC 2010
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On 08/05/2010 12:31 AM, Ankur Khurana wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ankur -- about the non-free thing, this is documented in the Debian
> Policy. You need to modify debian/control -- see
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Section
> . That section points to
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections .
>
>
> well i went through the links you provided , and some search of my
> own.Now it seems that the non free packages are not considered to be
> part of main distribution of Debian.There were section mentioned of main
> in the links given above but i believe that they are irrelevant now as
> Etoys is in non-free domain. Please pardon my ignorance but i was still
> at loss that what should be mentioned in section field.Shall i just
> mention contrib ? or is there any other norm.i searched but there were
> no definitive conclusion that i could arrive upon.
> Thanks for your help :)
Look a the way etoys' debian/control is written. There's a field there
that specifies the package is in non-free, do the same in
sugar-etoys-activity with contrib.
- --
Luke Faraone
http://luke.faraone.cc
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