[ not as ftpteam -- man, I'm saying this a lot lately ] On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 03:16:14PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > You have conspicuously failed to answer Jonas's question. What > objective does removing these files and repacking the tarballs serve ? We distribute source. The question is, do we want to distribute binaries in the source to which we have no, well, source. This means, do we want to break the DFSG on the distribution of source packages? > > Debian have a certain definition of Freedoms [...] > > Whose freedom is impaired, and in what way, by the presence of these > useless but ignored files in the tarball ? We distribute them. The challenge here is does anyone use them. I leave that question up to the reader. > In this subthread I think we are having an internal conversation about > what our own logic is, within Debian. I'm sorry to say that I still > fail to see the logic behind your apparent (but not explicitly stated) > point of view. Hopefully you can grok mine :) > > Ian. Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> | Proud Debian Developer : :' : 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~paultag `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag/conduct-statement.txt
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