Re: [tytso@MIT.EDU: Re: Bug#390664: closed by tytso@mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) (Bug#390664: fixed in e2fsprogs 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.10.02-1)]

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

* Theodore Tso (tytso@mit.edu) [061003 21:19]:
> I would appreciate any comments from the Debian Release Managers and
> Debian Masters about whether or not it is required to remove any files
> which are legal for us to redistribute (such as RFC's and I-D's), but
> which are not DFSG-compliant from source tarballs (but which are not
> included in any of packages which are part of 'main' or 'contrib').  I
> can find no statement in Debian Policy which requires this, and there
> is an admonition to try to not to deviate from the upstream source tar
> file whenever possible.

http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt says in
 1. DFSG-freeness:
 
    All content in main and contrib must meet the DFSG, both in .debs
    and in the source (including the .orig.tar.gz)

So, I would say, yes.


Cheers,
Andi