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Re: eight packages could possibly go to main!

Etienne Gagnon wrote:

In other words, I would be very wary of a GPL incompatible package that
has a "build-depends" on kaffe only, or a depends on kaffe only.  (adding
a non-working build-depends or depends does not count).

I should illustrate this:

$ apt-cache showsrc junit
...
Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 4.1), kaffe (>= 1.1.1), jikes (>= 1:1.18-6), fastjar (>= 3.3.2)
...

Notice the Build-Depends-Indep: ..., kaffe ...
Now, look at the license of junit.

So, yes, it can be a problem for some of the current packages, IMHO.

Etienne

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