On mer., 2012-05-16 at 19:45 +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > I just downloaded the source to Wordpress from Squeeze, it's got a 14M > .debian.tar.xz which is mostly sources for things that are included in the > upstream tarball. The build process appears to only use the upstream tarball > code so the 13MB of data in the debian/missing-sources directory isn't used > for building. > > It is a really good thing to have upstream sources available as dictated by > the GPL (well done to whoever did that). But that availability doesn't > require that they be in the source package. > > Would it be possible to have somewhere on the Debian servers for storing such > files so that they can be referenced in a README file or something rather than > sent to everyone? I'm sure that most people who build a Wordpress package > won't use them. > Any reason you didn't CC: wordpress maintainers? (I guess they are subscribed to -devel but considering the current mail rate, I'm unsure they'll read everything so it might make sense to CC: them at first…) Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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