Re: jquery debate with upstream
On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Ian Jackson wrote:
> No-one has come up with any practical benefit from the repacking of
> source tarballs to remove nonfree files.
Non-free files in source files are distributed by Debian. They cannot be
modified, inspected, or easily patched. Removing them assures us that
they will never be accidentally included in a Debian binary package. It
also means that people running searches for embedded copies to fix
security issues don't have false positives.
Whether these benefits outweigh the costs of doing it is arguable, but
these are some of the benefits.
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benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any
curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
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