On 12-06-22 at 07:44pm, Andrew Harvey wrote: > On 22/06/12 02:48, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Debian Policy requires (or only recommends? I don't recall) that if > > upstream source is not redistributed as-is then mangling be > > documented in debian/copyright. > > > > Seems from the CDBS hints that libjs-leaflet strips upstream > > generated JavaScript files. > > > > Either this should be documented, or preferrably - as the stripping > > seems unnecessary to me - the source should be used as-is, but those > > files instead be put aside when building the files used for binary > > packaging. > > While it is hard to argue this case, in general by excluding these > binary files which are rebuilt during the build process from the > debian source package results in a source package of smaller size.
The files are not binary, really, and not that big either. That's why I consider it more relevant to keep source pristine. Just yesterday I argued oppositely about a multimedia package that included Boost in its upstream tarball. So I do agree with you, when size does matter, but not here :-) > Is this the policy you are referring to > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-readmesource > > I don't believe that applies in this case. This (last sentence of that paragraph) is what I am referring to: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#source-field I tried just now and am actually surprised that I could not locate a corresponding requirement in Debian Policy itself: A driving principle when we recently developed Copyright Format 1.0 was to not introduce new requirements to content of the file, only to syntactic structure of it. I seem to recall this particular detail being discussed on debian-devel mailinglist about a year ago, but am too lazy to try find it now. > Do you have reference to best practice or policy for this? I can recommend that copyright format 1.0 document as a whole - it is a fairly short and nice read IMO. No, I am not so good at reading fine manuals myself so have no good pointers to best practices. They do exist, I am sure :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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