[Pkg-mol-devel] TODO

[Aurélien GÉRÔME]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:01:04PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 01:27:44PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
> > The question that popped in my mind is what is exactly considered
> > non-free in mol-drivers-maxosx? I know for sure mol-drivers-macos is
> > in contrib, because to work, it relies on an external ROM image for
> > the OldWorld PowerMac that you have to own.
> 
> AFAIK you need a proprietary compiler to build the drivers, but the code
> itself is free. I'm not sure if this means contrib or non-free. For sure
> it can not go into main, because packages in main have to be built using
> only things in main. 

Okay, I will look at it...

> > > - Should we put dfsg into the upstream version number like others do? Or
> > >   call the source package mol-dfsg?
> > 
> > I think so, because we are ripping upstream non-free parts.
> 
> I prefer to rename the source package (not the binaries). Do you have
> any preference?

My preference goes for not touching anything in either the name of
the source package or the names of the binary packages. Let's rather
modify the version part before the hyphen Debian revision number.

> > > - add tarballs of non-main parts to SVN
> > 
> > Maybe rather FTP?
> 
> I would rather put all things in the same location. What's the advantage
> of having them on FTP?

Well, if the source code contains non-free software, it is better to
have it out of the SVN. It is definitely removable in a FTP, but it
is not in a SVN, except if you destroy the SVN and rebuild it. From
experience, I had to do that when Piotr committed a non-free HFS
binary bootblock in the Debootloaders SVN repository.

Cheers,
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