Bug#849853: [debian-policy] Document source-is-missing lintian kind of problems

[roucaries bastien <roucaries.bastien+debian@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
> Hello Bastien,
>
> On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 01:45:34PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIÈS wrote:
>> I get some problems when reporting bug detected by source-is-missing
>> tag in lintian.
>>
>> The main problems are:
>> * minified javascript is source
>> * I remove it using rules
>> * It is not a problems because not included in the binary forms
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> I believe we should offer on policy pointer to ftp master reject faq
>> and some description of common problems.
>
> Policy currently defers to the DFSG for a definition of what counts as
> free software for Debian's purposes.  Thanks to the DPL's delegation of
> the ftp-masters, Policy defers to the DFSG plus the ftp-masters jointly.
>
> If we included text in Policy about common ways in which a package could
> fail to satisfy DFSG, Policy would effectively cease to defer to the
> ftp-masters.  I don't think that Policy has the authority to do that,
> and I don't think it would be desirable.
>
> A footnote with a link to the REJECT-FAQ sounds useful.  Here's a patch.

Yes it will work thanks

>> Maybe it belong to devref.
>
> Perhaps that should be a separate bug, if we're going to use this one to
> discuss adding a footnote with a link to the REJECT-FAQ.
>
> --
> Sean Whitton