On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > > On 2014-03-10 18:27, Joachim Breitner wrote: >> >> I keep discussing the same issues caused by minified JS files (mostly >> JQuery) in their source tarballs over and over. Could maybe those who >> care deeply about this write a concise wiki page with all that upstream >> needs to know about our expectations, so that I can point them to it? >> That page should also point out the least effort required to satisfy us >> (which, I believe, is downloading the corresponding source and dumping >> it in the tarball). >> >> >> Also, am I too pragmatic in suggesting that we should accept non-source >> files in tarballs if they are legally distributed and not used during >> the build (especially not included in the binary packages)? If we had >> this I would neither have to bug upstream about their convenience copies >> nor mess with tarball repackaging (which I consider ugly, a cludge, and >> to be avoided if possible) and simply make sure in the packaging that I >> use libjs-jquery instead of the included file. > > > as long as the code in question is not under a license that requires the > full, non-minified source to be reproduced and if the copyright notices and > license terms as potentially required by the license are present, I don't > see why not. But I guess the latter is not commonly happening? > > Kind regards > Philipp Kern > > > -- > 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/3bf683cdfbaab11625a69edecad8a...@hub.kern.lc >
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