On 08/17/2012 10:21 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Luca Falavigna wrote: >> 2012/8/17 Bernd Zeimetz <be...@bzed.de>: >>> But it usually does and also results in a source tarball which is >>> missing essential pieces of the software, so people who download it for >>> non-Debian usage will fail to run the shipped source just because we >>> removed an otherwise free piece of software. >> >> This does not make sense if the removed pieces are useless, as the >> core of this discussion is about. > > They are not useless if you take the pristine source which is the > situation that was described by Bernd. When we remove files we often have > to do supplementary modifications (debian/patches/ or add symlink at the > proper place) to get the software to work again... for example changing > the path where the libraries are expected to be found.
Also please remember the Social Contract: Our priorities are our users and free software. If I would remove an otherwise free piece of software I'm not using in the binary package just because the original, non-minified version of it is missing, I think that I would violate the SC. If the opinion of the ftp-masters is different from mine I think we might need a GR to solve this issue. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- 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/5034e837.4050...@bzed.de
