On 11/27/23 15:02, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
On 27-11-2023 02:11, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
Alright, I have fully rebuilt the copyright file. I also ended up
adding the source code for several releases of C-BIOS into the
packaging. As this code is in the form of zipped files for the sake
of size, it's not exactly practical to provide the new source package
changes as a debdiff since debdiffs don't communicate binary file
changes very well. So here's a .tar.gz of the new source package
tree, detach-signed with my GPG key.
https://github.com/ArrayBolt3/openmsx-packaging (I put it on GitHub
since Gmail didn't want to let me send the package as a file
attachment.)
But why would you include the cbios sources in the openMSX package, as
there is already a cbios package, which provides the binaries and has
the sources as source package?
Because openMSX vendors pre-built C-BIOS binaries, so therefore the
source package must include the sources for it to be DFSG compliant. See
https://www.debian.org/social_contract DFSG section 2. There is no build
dependency on C-BIOS since C-BIOS binaries are provided in openMSX
rather than sources. There is no binary dependency on C-BIOS either for
the same reason. A user who downloads the source for the Debian openMSX
package will not get all of the source, since there are multiple C-BIOS
binaries with no source code. openMSX does point to the C-BIOS sources
on SourceForge, but SourceForge isn't guaranteed to always exist. I do
not think it is sufficient for some of the sources the user should have
been given to just be "somewhere in the archive", leaving it up to the
user to find them. Including C-BIOS source in the source package of
openMSX ensures that even if all else fails (no upstream source, no way
of pulling the C-BIOS source package for some reason) a user will always
get the sources for the software they downloaded the source package of.
(You probably will notice some superfluous-file-pattern warnings from
Lintian when you build this - I do not understand why these are
occurring as the file patterns it's griping about are *not*
superfluous and don't appear to be overridden by any later statements
in the copyright file. I suspect a Lintian bug here.)
--
Kind regards,
Manuel
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Aaron Rainbolt
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