[website/master] Add a small explanation about waf to Reject FAQ
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depending on an already available packages to provide missing features.</td>
<td>October 2011</td>
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+ <tr>
+ <td>Package uses <tt>waf</tt> as build system</td>
+ <td>That's a special case of <q>source code missing</q>. Normaly
+ packages using waf as build system contain a Python script
+ with an compressed tarball embedded as a binary blob, where
+ it is not obvious how to get the actual source. As that's not
+ considered to be the prefered form of modification that's considerer to
+ fail the DFSG. See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/645190">#645190</a> and
+ <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/UnpackWaf">http://wiki.debian.org/UnpackWaf</a>
+ for details.</td>
+ <td>January 2012</td>
+ </tr>
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