On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 03:53:24AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On 11/26/2017 02:38 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: > > > > However, the preferred format of modification is in fact present in the > > zxcvbn-c source package, which builds dict-src.h as part of its package > > build. So I wonder if you could refer to that package in README.source > > and it would be enough for the ftp-masters? > > That's fairly fragile, e.g., if a new version of zxcvbn-c comes out, the > source (may) not be there any longer. That'd create an unexpected and > surprising (at least to zxcvbn-c's maintainer) failure to meet the social > contract. > > I'm not sure if that (possibly very unlikely) chance is worth repacking the > tarball or not. Or if ftp-masters will see it as required. Another option is to put the source under debian/missing-sources/, avoiding a tarball repack, as suggested by the corresponding lintian tag: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/source-is-missing.html -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ http://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ http://www.debian.org
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