On Thursday, March 13, 2014 14:21:22 Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:48:44AM -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit : > > What percentage of free software in Debian main do you expect then? > > Hi Scott, > > I expect 100 % in the binary packages. > > On the other hand, the "upstream" tarballs are becoming temporary cruft that > are not the preferred form for modification because they do not contain the > typical revision information and comments found in version control systems > used upstream. This was not the case when Debian was founded, but as the > world evolves, we need to evolve.
Oh. So you think to meet the DFSG we need to provide a copy of the VCS repository since the tarball isn't the preferred form of modification? That would be a huge change. Far bigger than repacking a few tarballs. Scott K -- 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/4529772.1BmzsFCMxx@scott-latitude-e6320
