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Re: pdf files in upstream tarball and -doc package



also sprach Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> [2005.02.11.1332 +0100]:
> But you cannot include pdf files for which no source is included,
> or only Micro$oft .doc files, in a Debian package: We need the
> source code, and pdf, even if not compressed, cannot be taken as
> source code.

This is debateable. PDF is basically PS, and PS is source code.

So why not

  pdf2ps thefile.pdf

ship the PS and build the PDF from it?

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