Re: DFSG filtering question

[Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net>]

Markus Koschany <apo@gambaru.de> writes:

>> 1. remove "BingAerialTileSource.java" using Files-Excluded: and modify
>> "Demo.java" using a quilt patch
>> => orig.tar.gz contains code that won't compile, is that a problem?
>
> If you run uscan BingAerialTileSource.java will be removed from the original
> tarball due to the Files-Excluded directive. In conjunction with your patch there
> shouldn't be any code left that won't compile.

Ok, I was thinking the .orig.tar.gz by itself must compile, but now I
realized this wouldn't be the case even with simple external
dependencies ;-)

> The Debian package is
> always the
> original tarball + Debian changes (the debian directory).
>
>
>> 2. remove "BingAerialTileSource.java" and modify "Demo.java" both using
>> quilt patches
>
> I would go for 1. Just repack the tarball and add +dfsg to the version number.

Thanks,
-- 
Felix Natter