On 15-07-14 16:05, Yavor Doganov wrote: >> Well, the source has to be DFSG-free. How we guarantee that usually is >> by building everything from source during the build. If you don't want >> to build it, you have to remove them from source and repack > > I don't understand. It is quite common for a package not to build > some part of the source; this is not a problem at all as long as > everything is DFSG-compliant. Which is the case here. This is true if you mean that not all source is used during a build. However, a lot of the Debian developers (yes, there is debate on this how far you should stretch this argument) consider a tar-ball to meet the DFSG if the files are either the preferred form for modification OR build-able from such a form with tools available in Debian (e.g. MS Windows executables in the source are frowned upon by most). In order to guarantee that they are indeed buildable, a lot of DD's will just say, let's build them than. Whatever you do, to prevent accidental usage of a pre-build object file it is very common to at least clean them. Paul
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