Hello, On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 06:18am -06, rhys wrote: > The potential for additional function is not relevant. > > If the upstream intends to distribute it with a tarball, that's the "golden" > package that downstream should base code upon. The Debian project officially disagrees with you. The preferred form for modification, which is what NEW cares about, is determined by upstream's actual practices, not by their fiat. We frequently reject packages from NEW because we have minified files; we add the source to debian/missing-sources/. -- Sean Whitton
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