Bug#751550: RFS: aclock.app/0.4.0-1 [ITA]

[Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Yavor Doganov wrote:

> There is no recipe to render the images from the .blend file.
...
> Furthermore, it is possible that the current upstream has no clue at
> all how to generate the images

This sounds like a problem to me.

> This is usually done only for users' convenience and not because of
> some bad upstream intentions.  It is rather annoying if you can't
> build a program because of some obscure dependency that cannot be
> installed (or is burdensome to install) for some reason.

I have the luxury of being a Debian user so I do tend to not worry
about that sort of thing any more.

> I agree.  My question was would be a violation if there was no
> ironclad way to determine what is the preferred form for modification.

If we have no indicators we generally assume upstream is releasing the
preferred form for modification.

> Thanks, I didn't know that.  Only one package build-depends on
> xcftools which again suggests that currently it is not a common
> practice in Debian to regenerate images from source.  If you want to
> change that you have to enforce it somehow via Policy or at least
> document it as a recommended practice.  That's all I wanted to say.

Agreed that it is not common practice, sadly. I think we have enough
in policy/DFSG to encourage this, we just need people to understand it
and actually care about it, which is the hard part.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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