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[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>
 	</tr>
+	<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>
   </table><br />
   <br />
 
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