Le jeudi 08 mai 2014 à 00:57 +0200, Vincent Bernat a écrit : > ❦ 7 mai 2014 17:41 CEST, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> : > > > Specifically, it violates my (pre-this-thread) expectation of what it is > > that I get from 'apt-get source'. Prior to reading this thread, it would > > never have occurred to me to think that something obtained that way > > might not be actually part of the source (or source-documentation, et > > cetera) of the binary package; I would have looked at the source, seen > > the minified JS file, and expected that it would be used during the > > build or in the final "binary". If I needed to modify it, or to trace > > code flow through it for debugging purposes, I could have spent a fair > > amount of time and effort unnecessarily. I don't think I'm likely to be > > alone in this. > > This is to be compared with the time spent by the maintainer to deal > with this problem by adding files or removing files from the source > package without affecting the resulting binary package. This may keep > some contributors away from Debian. > > When I get some time to work on my packages and I see this: > > http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/pkg-roundcube-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#roundcube > > Well, I say "Let's do something else, I'll have another look later".
The situation for roundcube is not that bad... i'm offering to help (in the pkg-roundcube repository) ? Jérémy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1399504310.10734.22.camel@imac.chaumes
