On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:34:04PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Etoys was being considered to get into Debian. Now it may be rejected, 
> because an image file is not "transparent enough" (see below). It was 
> suggested to discuss this issue on the debian-devel list.
>
> Do any of you have ideas how to respond? Are there perhaps other Debian 
> packages that have a similar issue of accountability?

I'm not sure about this, but many languages require a big binary
translator in order to build the language:

GCC requires a binary download of GCC to build GCC
Haskell does too

I'm not sure how Squeak is different.

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