Re: Do the HPPA "binary-only" NMUs violate the GPL?

[LaMont Jones <lamont@hp.com>]

> As I already said on debian-hppa; _don't do this_.  I don't know who
> told you to do bin-only NMUs with source changes but they need a damn
> good kicking.  Even if you don't see the inherent evilness of
> source-changing binary-only NMUs, you really ought to understand that
> the vast majority of HPPA fixes are not specific to HPPA, by doing a
> binary-only NMU you're denying the fix to other architectures in a
> similar position (e.g. ia64, s390, sh).  Just do sourceful NMUs,
> _please_.

Very good point.  I will go back through all of my binary+patch NMU's
and pursue getting source uploads done.  A lot of the packages have been
pretty quick about uploading fixes, which helps some, but I'll start
pushing.

lamont