On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:35:50AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> 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.
What is the upstream zipfile in question?
<http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/GFS_DIDOT_TT.zip>, which seems to be the
right upstream zipfile, contains only the 6 files included in the
ttf-gfs-didot orig.tar.gz.
Is <http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/images/Didot%20Specimen.pdf> the file in
question? I certainly don't see that this would be a reason for a package
reject, but I also don't see any reason you would go out of your way to
package this if it's not already part of the upstream source.
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