non-free file in free sources
I had a look into the xfig documentation and found out, that xfig has
some code for writing GIF files in it, which is only used for
capturing and can be replaced by PCX without any problems (only one
change in the Imakefile). This results in using PCX and in not
compiling f_wrgif.c (the file including all the GIF writing code).
So it's no problem to create a really _free_ xfig binary package, but
what about the sources? f_wrgif.c is part of the official upstream
source package, should it stay there or should I create a new
xfig_3.2.2.orig.tar.gz with this file removed?
If I should remove this file from the upstream sources, how can this
technically be done without changing the upstream version number?
Uploading a new Debian version does only upload a diff and removing
f_wrgif.c by using the diff (which means that the complete file
becomes part of the diff every line prefixed with "-") sounds not very
useful for me...
So what should I do? Simply ignore that this source file is non-free,
while it is not used for creating the binary?
Ciao
Roland
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