Re: policy regarding redistributable binary files in upstream tarballs
On Thursday, November 20, 2014 11:40:18 PM Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> > 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.
Go read the FTP Team statement that was referenced up-thread. Your premise
for the override is incorrect from the point of view of the FTP Team.
Scott K
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