On Tue, 2021-02-02 at 10:53 +0100, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hello Philip, > > while we like to remove non-free stuff from our tarballs, I don't > think removing dlls is a good use case. > > Using the upstream tarball is quite convenient, since we have less > importing errors, the md5 is the same > and can be verified, and we don't introduce patches that last > forever. > > DLL files are not used in our build process, so they are not > impacting in any way the resulting deb file. > > Do you think this repack is really worth? > > I know sometimes we want to silence lintian, but the cost might just > be too high for a little gain. > > I would like to know if anybody else has a different opinion, please > share it with me! > > thanks for caring about DFSG-ness of the package! > > Gianfranco > Hi Gianfranco, I had a feeling the DFSG and lintian changes maybe questioned, though they are in-line with policy. For this reason I prepared a package backup pre making these changes. :-) Certain DFSG lintian warnings do possibly need discussion around them and if they should be strictly adhered to. I will upload a version without the contentious changes and we can go from there. Regards Phil -- *** Playing the game for the games own sake. *** WWW: https://kathenas.org Twitter: @kathenasorg IRC: kathenas GPG: 724AA9B52F024C8B
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