Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> writes: > On the behalf of the FTP master team, Ansgar Burchardt explained me why > the dependency to libjs-jquery is not enough to fulfill the "provide the > sources" part since the source in the archive may not correspond to the > version included in the upstream tarball.
> I agree with the rationale. However, here is mine: > 1. The license allows redistribution and modification of the minified > version without having the sources. Therefore, we are only dealing > with DFSG here. > 2. The package does not need the shipped minified version to work > correctly. We replace it with another minified version from another > package. This may mean that from the point of view of the > package, the sources provided in libjs-jquery is "equivalent" to the > sources that would have been provided with the package. > 3. Repacking the original tarball just to remove those files is extra > work. > I know this is tedious but what others think about this matter? Could this be solved via the Built-Using field? That indicates that you're embedding source from another package (in this case, libjs-jquery). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87has2agc4....@windlord.stanford.edu
