On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Craig Small wrote: > It means that the upstream have to hang onto some script they might of > used once years ago for.. what reason?
No, that's not what it means. The whole point of requiring source is to stop artificially inhibiting user's (and Debian's) ability to modify a work for any purpose. If the script no longer exists, then the preferred form for modification that actually exists is the source. Requiring the vector file for bitmap graphics which were made from a vector file is an example of enabling modifications of the work. It's already normal to need vastly different resolutions of graphics for some devices with high DPI screens, and it's not unusual for there to be spelling errors or untranslated words in graphics which should be fixed, either. But then again, my feelings on this matter should be obvious, as I did write https://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_004 after all... -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects". -- Mark Twain _A Horse's Tail_ -- 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/20140313170513.ge...@teltox.donarmstrong.com
