On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 13:06 +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le 12/04/12 12:50, Gerber van der Graaf a écrit : > > Hi, for packaging freefoam-user-doc I intend to include the static file > > UsersGuide.pdf.gz as asymptote is currently broken. > > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668286) > > Also, generating the manual pages for the freefoam package does not work > > for the moment as a2x from asccidoc does currently not work properly. > > The idea is to include these files statically (for the moment until > > mentioned packages have been repaired) using (d)quilt. > > Hi, > > It's not OK to include a binary file which can't be built automatically. > That's called "fails to build from source in a sane way". > > That said, you can't use a diff file to include a binary file. That's > why we now use debian.tar.gz rather than .diff.gz. The right solution is > to list your file in debian/source/include-binaries, see man dpkg-source. Doesn't this make it a non-free package? I think the right solution is to strip the un-buildable binary out of the upstream source and re-make the .orig.tar.gz with .dfsg in the version. And ask upstream to put the source in the next version. -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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