Re: policy regarding redistributable binary files in upstream tarballs

[Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it>]

> Could you include some information about the upstream you are talking
> about and the specific files you are concerned about?

I am talking about this bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=769830

The package has a lintian override that I suggested, on the grounds that the 
incriminated file doesn't go inside a .deb package.

I am neither upstream or Debian maintainer for the package, but I have sent 
some patches to both.

The minified javascript file mentioned in the bug is completely ignored in 
Debian. It is replaced with a soft link and a dependency.

I don't think upstream would remove these minified javascript files, because 
they would need a more complex build process and more dependencies. The files 
are just used to do an "HTML export", so they are just copied inside a 
directory when the HTML export is done, so I think that to convince them to 
build them, we would need very strong arguments. Consider that they support 
windows and mac as well, so they'd need their build process to work on these 
platforms.


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Salvo Tomaselli

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