Package: freemat version: 4.0-5 user: lintian-ma...@debian.org usertags: source-is-missing severity: serious X-Debbugs-CC: ftpmas...@debian.org
Hi,
Your package seems to include some files that lack sources
in prefered forms of modification:
tools/tst (maybe compiled form of tools/t.cpp?)
help/tmp/add.so (check if matlab lib are not statically linked is so
undistributable)
Please also instruct upstream to run make dist-clean (not serious bug)
dependencies/volpack-1.0c7/examples/.libs/scalevolume
dependencies/volpack-1.0c7/examples/.libs/rendervolume
dependencies/volpack-1.0c7/examples/.libs/makevolume
dependencies/volpack-1.0c7/examples/.libs/makeoctree
dependencies/volpack-1.0c7/examples/.libs/classifyvolume
According to Debian Free Software Guidelines [1] (DFSG) #2:
"The program must include source code, and must allow distribution
in source code as well as compiled form.".
This could also constitute a license violation for some copyleft licenses such
as the GNU GPL.
In order to solve this problem, you could:
1. repack the origin tarball adding the missing source to it.
2 add the source files to "debian/missing-sources" directory
Both way satisfies the requirement that we ship the source. Second option
might be preferable due to the following reasons [2]:
- Upstream can do it too and you could even supply a patch to them, thus full
filling our social contract [3], see particularly §2.
- If source and non-source are in different locations, ftpmasters may
miss the source and (needlessly) reject the package.
- The source isn't duplicated in every .diff.gz/.debian.tar.* (though
this only really matters for larger sources).
You could also ask debian...@lists.debian.org or #debian-qa for more
guidance.
[1] https://www.debian.org/social_contract.en.html#guidelines
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736873#8
[3] https://www.debian.org/social_contract
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