On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: > No-one has come up with any practical benefit from the repacking of > source tarballs to remove nonfree files.
Non-free files in source files are distributed by Debian. They cannot be modified, inspected, or easily patched. Removing them assures us that they will never be accidentally included in a Debian binary package. It also means that people running searches for embedded copies to fix security issues don't have false positives. Whether these benefits outweigh the costs of doing it is arguable, but these are some of the benefits. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation. -- Adolf Hitler _Mein Kampf_ p403 -- 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/20140312154438.gd12...@teltox.donarmstrong.com
