Re: Package with non-free build-depends

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Colin Walters writes ("Re: Package with non-free build-depends"):
> Now, I'm not sure where we would list such a rule about source packages
> and preferred modification form; it doesn't really seem to belong in the
> Social Contract or the DFSG.  It mostly just seems like "common sense";
> but it's easy to violate it in little ways, and those set precedents for
> bigger ways.

It seems to me obvious that a source package should contain source
code.

The question then is just about the definition of `source code'.  And
the GPL is the only document we have that has a sensible definition -
namely, the preferred form for modification.  That is what source code
is.

Ian.