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Re: Bug#995722: Not running tests because tests miss source code is not useful



Quoting Julien Puydt (2021-10-09 18:48:07)
> Hi
> 
> Le sam. 9 oct. 2021 à 17:40, Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> a écrit :
> 
> > On 2021-10-09 08:53:57 +0200 (+0200), Yadd wrote:
> > [...]
> > > If you really consider minified files as binary, there's a room 
> > > for creating a lot of RC bugs
> >
> > The more appropriate question is whether Debian considers minified 
> > files to be source code, or a compiled form. To needlessly quote 
> > DFSG §2: "The program must include source code, and must allow 
> > distribution in source code as well as compiled form."
> >
> 
> Minified code isn't code in a form meant/supposed to be modified by 
> hand, so it's not source code.

Right.  But stating that is not helping much.

It is not source code.

It is not binary code.

It is not...

The appropriate question is how it fits Debian Free Software Guidelines.


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