[freenet-dev] [GSoC] Packaging and setup process

[Sven-Ola Tücke]

Yep - and there's more. Not beeing able to provide a decent makefile to 
generate *.o, *.so, or *.a with a simple "apt-get source freenet" will place 
you in the non-free section anyhow AFAIK...

// Sven-Ola

Am Sonntag 23 März 2008 10:39:32 schrieb Obey Arthur Liu:
> Joel C. Salomon a écrit :
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Matthew Toseland
> >
> > <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> >>  > I thought that Update over Mandatory was implemented at this point,
> >>  > negating this problem?
> >>
> >>  It does if you enable the updater. But that might trip up the
> >> packaging.
> >
> > On Debian & Ubuntu, package installation scripts can download recent
> > versions of the software, so auto-update shouldn't be too much of a
> > problem.
> >
> > --Joel
>
> The issue here with maintainer scripts downloading the bulk of the
> software is that it's against Debian policy and against the purpose of
> packages. There are some exceptions but there are for programs that are
> non-free anyway : flashplugin-nonfree, java-package, vmware-package...
> And anyway, nobody sane would run an "aptitude upgrade" daily on cron.
>
> Obey Arthur Liu