Hi there! On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:53:09 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 08/17/2012 09:39 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> * Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org>, 2012-08-16, 19:24: >>> 3. Repacking the original tarball just to remove those files is extra >>> work. >> >> Part of the problem is that we lack good tools to do this extra work for >> us. Really, repacking shouldn't be a tedious operation, it shouldn't >> take more than 5 seconds, it shouldn't require writing two dozens lines >> of code and documentation. :( > > But it usually does and also results in a source tarball which is > missing essential pieces of the software, so people who download it for > non-Debian usage will fail to run the shipped source just because we > removed an otherwise free piece of software. I fully agree with Bernd here: if what we want to remove is under a free license, then I would not repack the original tarball simply because we do not use it. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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