Re: Minified javascript files

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> writes:

> On 08/17/2012 09:40 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> What I didn't know until recently is that the minified version in the
>>> source package should be removed (or the appropriate full version should
>>> be appended).
>>>     
>> Do we also require that for say, precompiled DLLs of GTK+ or SDL for
>> Windows platforms?
>>   
> I had the OpenSSL dll for windows embedded in one of my source packages,
> because there was some windows software together with it. I had to remove
> it completely, as I was asked to have the source code for it, and I found
> ridiculous to embed the sources of OpenSSL too.
>
> So yes, we have the problem for precompiled windows DLLs in a source
> package.

Interesting, that issue seems rather common.  Maybe a lintian check
could alarm packagers of this?

See below for a list of *.dll files in packages starting with 'a' only.
Overall, I found *.dll files in around 131 packages (of course not all
of those represent a problem).

/Simon

./abe_1.1.orig.tar.gz:abe-1.1/SDL.dll
./abe_1.1.orig.tar.gz:abe-1.1/SDL_mixer.dll
./activemq_5.6.0+dfsg.orig.tar.gz:activemq-5.6.0+dfsg/assembly/src/release/bin/win64/wrapper.dll
./alpine_2.02.orig.tar.gz:re-alpine-2.02/alpine/ldap32.dll
./alpine_2.02.orig.tar.gz:re-alpine-2.02/ldap/binaries/debug/ldap32.dll
./alpine_2.02.orig.tar.gz:re-alpine-2.02/ldap/binaries/debug/libldap.dll
./alpine_2.02.orig.tar.gz:re-alpine-2.02/ldap/binaries/release/ldap32.dll
./alpine_2.02.orig.tar.gz:re-alpine-2.02/ldap/binaries/release/libldap.dll
./altos_1.0.3.tar.gz:altos-1.0.3/altosui/Instdrv/NSIS/Plugins/InstDrv.dll
./antlr_2.7.7+dfsg.orig.tar.gz:antlr-2.7.7/examples/csharp/csharp_v1/Tools/runtime.dll
./antlr_2.7.7.orig.tar.gz:antlr-2.7.7/examples/csharp/csharp_v1/Tools/runtime.dll
./argyll_1.1.1.orig.tar.gz:argyll-1.1.1/libusbw/ddk_make/sources_dll
./argyll_1.1.1.orig.tar.gz:argyll-1.1.1/libusbw/libusb0.dll
./argyll_1.1.1.orig.tar.gz:argyll-1.1.1/libusbw/libusb0_x64.dll
./armadillo_0.9.52.orig.tar.gz:armadillo-0.9.52/examples/lib_win32/blas_win32_MT.dll
./armadillo_0.9.52.orig.tar.gz:armadillo-0.9.52/examples/lib_win32/lapack_win32_MT.dll
./atanks_5.5.orig.tar.gz:atanks-5.5/alleg42.dll
./atanks_5.5.orig.tar.gz:atanks-5.5/src/alleg42.dll