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

[Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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.
http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/GFS_DIDOT_OT.zip
(OT=OpenType vs. TT=TrueType that you linked)

> 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.
That's the file and it's included in the zipfile above (and no, I
wouldn't have tried to package this if it wasn't part of the upstream
source)

And yes, that was the reason for the rejection.

Regards,
Faidon