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

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:01:40AM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> Debian is divided up into its main repository and a non-free
> repository. Without source code, maf.jar could be packaged in the
> non-free repository, but it's definitely preferred to have the source
> code.

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.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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