Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source
Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> writes:
>> 2014-04-26 07:51 Ben Finney:
>>> If it's in the Debian source package, it is distributed as part of
>>> Debian.
> (I'm assuming, from the lack of response to this point, that this is
> uncontroversial.)
You should probably not assume that. Rather, you should probably assume
that most people are uninterested in having this argument for the 14th
time.
I continue to hold to my position that distributing sourceless files in
source packages, provided they are under a free license and not used as
part of the process of building binary package, is a nuisance rather than
a meaningful DFSG violation and not worth spending project time and
resources on. That said, I do understand why people want simple rules
with no exceptions, even if those rules lead to moderately nonsensical
corner cases.
I very much doubt that further discussion of this is going to change
anyone's mind, and I suspect we will simply continue to disagree on the
requirements until such a time as someone proposes a GR to clarify this
(if that ever happens). I don't care enough about the issue to do that
myself.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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