Re: Sourceless but useless: how about ignoring some irrelevant files instead of repackaging?

[Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> Sourceless PDF files are not a violation of the Social Contract / DFSG.  If
> you are having to sink time into finding source for such files, let's put an
> end to this - give me the details and I'll propose a GR that reaffirms
> what's stated already in our founding documents, that source code is only
> mandatory for programs.
Just to get this interesting: I've had packages rejected because of
included sourceless PDFs.

Specifically, ttf-gfs-{-didot,-baskerville,-olga,-porson} on 04/04/2008.

Upstream is including a font specimen with their original "tarball" =
zipfile. I asked them for the specimen "source" (like that would do us
any good, being in Adobe Illustrator format et al) but they refused, big
surprise there.

TBH, I can see arguments for both sides.

Regards,
Faidon