Package: eclipse-wtp Severity: serious x-Debbugs-CC: ftpmas...@debian.org According to your todo: >Part of source files in org.eclipse.wst.sse.core should be regenerated from >JFlex grammar files in directory DevTimeSupport, but they require JFlex 1.2.2 >for correct transformation (Debian has newer version). Migration to newer >JFlex seems not going to happen very soon in upstream[1] > >There are still some binary resource files in org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.core >(part1.rsc, start1.rsc etc.), but I could not trace their origin and if and >how they can be regenerated. Seems the same files are present in jdt parser >and also other eclipse plugins. Should be regenerated when possible. > >[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=296976
According to Debian Free Software Guidelines [1] (DFSG) #2: "The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form.". This could also constitute a license violation for some copyleft licenses such as the GNU GPL. In order to solve this problem, you could: 1. repack the origin tarball adding the missing source to it. 2 add the source files to "debian/missing-sources" directory Both way satisfies the requirement that we ship the source. Second option might be preferable due to the following reasons [2]: - Upstream can do it too and you could even supply a patch to them, thus full filling our social contract [3], see particularly §2. - If source and non-source are in different locations, ftpmasters may miss the source and (needlessly) reject the package. - The source isn't duplicated in every .diff.gz/.debian.tar.* (though this only really matters for larger sources). You could also ask debian...@lists.debian.org or #debian-qa for more guidance. [1] https://www.debian.org/social_contract.en.html#guidelines [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736873#8 [3] https://www.debian.org/social_contract
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