Bug#752339: Some questions about RFS: dbuskit/0.1.1-1 [ITP]

[Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>]

Paul Gevers wrote:
> On 15-07-14 16:05, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> > 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).

I see what you mean but that's not the case here.  The source code is
available; that's the preferred form for modification.

> Whatever you do, to prevent accidental usage of a pre-build object
> file it is very common to at least clean them.

It is done by `make distclean'.