I object to this
a file mplayer....orig.tar.gz is, as the name says, the original distributed source
distributing my modified tar.gz disguising it as the upstream original one would be cause of confusion
All of the kernel-source packages that need it have an orig.tar.gz without non-free bits. Look at the 'prune' target in kernel-source-2.6.8 for example.
It's just as wrong to make it Debian native as it is to say it's an "upstream original" that in reality lacks some non-free bits. And in practice, the latter is the lesser of two evils.
-- Joshua Kwan
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