Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>, 2012-09-21, 14:30:
> > > mirror_2.9-62
> > >   /usr/share/doc/mirror/mirror.txt.gz
> > >   /usr/share/doc/mirror/html/mirror-ref.html
> > >   /usr/share/mirror/mirror.pl
> > >   /usr/share/mirror/dateconv.pl
> > >   /usr/share/mirror/lchat.pl
> > >   /usr/share/mirror/lsparse.pl
> > >   /usr/share/mirror/ftp.pl
> > >   /usr/bin/do_unlinks
> > >   /usr/bin/mirror-master
> > >   /usr/bin/pkgs_to_mmin
>
> The mirror package applies some patches during postinst to conform with 
> the license.

Really? I didn't read the license, but either it's not neccessary, or 
it's a DFSG§4 violation: “The license must explicitly permit 
distribution of software built from modified source code.”

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Jakub Wilk