On fredagen den 16 januari 2009, Robert Millan wrote:
> tags 459705 patch
> thanks
>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:33:58PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> > While I generally agree that everything Debian ships should be really
> > free, not merely free to redistribute, in this case I feel that a single
> > file buried inside another tarball, which no-one has reason to unpack
> > since Nettle exists as a package of its own, is such a marginal issue
> > that the desire to ship a pristine tarball should carry more weight.
>
> Hi Magnus,
>
> I'm attaching a script that does this for you.  It should no longer be a
> burden to remove that file from a deeply buried tarball.

Thanks. However, I'd like to repeat that the reason I haven't fixed this bug 
isn't that it's hard, but that it seems like such a marginal problem that I 
consider it more important with a pristine tarball.

-- 
Magnus Holmgren        holmg...@debian.org
Debian Developer 

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