Re: Repackaging question
Andrew Haley wrote:
> > It's a good idea to remove generated javadoc and jar files and classes.
>
> Very much so. Unless you build from source, you have no way to know
> that the binaries correspond to that source code. You can't even
> guarantee that you're not violating the GPL, which requires you to
> provide source code on demand.
That may be a valid argument, but there are more troubling cases. For
instance we ship a lot of packages that build with Maven, but since we
don't have Maven in Debian, we use the included, pre-generated, Ant build
file instead. What should we do about those?
Marcus
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