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binary packages?

On 9 Nov 1996, Daniel Quinlan wrote:

quinlan >And putting Syslinux into contrib is not a good idea.  It should be
quinlan >okay to include binaries from "trusted sources" if they can't be
quinlan >easily compiled by the Debian maintainer.

I got syslinux from sunsite the same way I got defrag. I
knew defrag from before and could not find anything suspicious in the way
things were done. I did the same inspection with syslinux.

A well informed hacker could certainly have tricked me into believing that
the package in question was sincere in both cases. There is a limit to
what one can do.

Syslinux is a base package so it cannot go into contrib. The policy might
need a change.

Generally we should have some kind of policy regarding binary packages
because now as Linux is going mainstream there will certainly be more
packages that are commercial or have some sort of "free" status that are
distributed binary only.

I think we need some rules for

- Packages that are binary only but freely redistributable (like PASH
  until sources become available)

- Packages that are binary but NOT freely redistributable.
  Only the diffs are distributable. These packages can be handled by
  "alien". Do these diffs go into the distribution or where are
  they going? How are they uploaded / submitted?

- Packages that are binary and freely redistributable when not modified
  Those will have an .orig.tar.gz and a diff.gz but no
  *.deb. The .deb must be generated on the fly by the alien command.

- Through ibcs and dosemu even packages for a variety of Unixes and DOS
  apps could be packaged for Debian. Any ideas about that?

Perhaps some day Linux will take over the world?

That reminds me: FreeDOS is also a binary only package not compilable
under Debian. Should it be moved to contrib?

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