Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > 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). Oh, no, wait, never mind, that's only for binary packages, and the problem you have is with the source package containing sources that are not in the preferred form for modification. Yeah, I don't think there's a good solution for that. -- 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/87boiaag9w....@windlord.stanford.edu
