On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 03:02:37 +0200 Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 11:10:19PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > > Hi Edgar, > > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 03:44:01PM -0500, Edgar Antonio Palma de la > > Cruz wrote: > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "wizznic". > > [...] FTR, there was some talk about the package in #debian-mentors the other day, so i expect this package is evolving :) > > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > > > It has 2 type of --pedantic notice: > > > P: wizznic source: source-contains-prebuilt-windows-binary > > > P: wizznic source: source-contains-prebuilt-binary > > > I'm already contact the upstream for this issues, and he said > > > that a next release would be more cleaner, because this is a > > > preview version. > > > > Without any further review - this will need to be repackaged as > > DFSG-free for an upload. It cannot be uploaded in this shape. Sorry. > > Why? Both of these files are DFSG free, merely just a waste of space. > You're of course not allowed to use prebuilt binaries, but they're not > otherwise harmful. > > There is source for them and you can build them using nothing but > software included in Debian main -- that's all that counts. > > They take 0.6% of the source tarball, so the waste isn't that big > either. There is 5mb of .o, .dll and .exe files in the tarball. Out of 55mb of tarball thats not 0.6%. thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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