On Wednesday, November 19, 2025 4:55:14 AM Central European Standard Time GONG Ruiqi wrote: > And then I came across the Qt source package. By comparing with the > upstream release[1], I noticed that qtbase-opensource-src[2] > (specifically, 5.15.15+dfsg-6), besides some binaries and rfcxxx docs, > removed the following components: > > examples/xml/htmlinfo/ > src/3rdparty/iaccessible2/ > src/3rdparty/sqlite/ > src/3rdparty/wintab/ > > But I don't see how/why these particular components violates the DSFG, > as they seem to be well licensed and allow others to > use/redistribute/modify them. So would you please explain the reason for > their removal? Thanks in advance.
Not all of them violates the DFSG, but most of 3rdparty is unneeded because we use system components. Because *some* of the components, likely the binaries and the RFC docs are non-free, we just use the opportunity to remove some unneeded stuff as well. /Sune -- I didn’t stop pretending when I became an adult, it’s just that when I was a kid I was pretending that I fit into the rules and structures of this world. And now that I’m an adult, I pretend that those rules and structures exist. - zefrank
