Re: non free IETF's RFC documents in .orig.tar.gz
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 06:33:59PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Montag, 30. August 2004 18:17 schrieb Stephen Frost:
> > Which is a terrible practice and shouldn't be done in general. The
> > .orig.tar.gz's really *should* be the same as the upstream tarball.
> > Convince upstream to remove them.
>
> How would you convince the upstream to do that? I am affected by
> this issue, but I don't see how I could get the upstream to listen
> to this kind of issue. If you consider their interests, removing
> the RFC only diminishes the overall value of their package
> (minimally, but still) while seemingly gaining nothing at all in
> return.
The "added value" is really very minimal; RFCs can be easily found by
other means. Shipping them in the tarball usualy is just bloat.
Tell them that it makes your life as Debian maintainer difficult,
as it puts additional workload on you and that you will not be able to
ship the unchanged tarball, taking away the possibility to verify
md5sum/signature from your users.
cu andreas
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