Also archive size, for what it's worth. Shipping GBs of DLLs, minified JS and other sourceless nonsense is totally a waste of everyone's time and storage space.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> wrote: > 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 > > -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq
