On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 5:21 AM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 6:34 AM, Helmut Grohne wrote: > >> Other packages that don't build from source by default include bash, >> dash, debianutils, dpkg, e2fsprogs, findutils, fribidi, gmp, jemalloc, >> libatomic-ops, libbsd, libtasn1-6, lzo2, ncurses, nettle, patch, >> readline6, and sed. > > I would add firmware-linux-free and probably any package with a > debian/missing-sources/ directory.
Oh nice to see that my lintian implementation is useful. Will add a tag fact about this in lintian. Bastien > >> I believe that being able to build from source is more important than >> copying copyright information from packages in Built-Using. > > The latter is potentially a license violation, but I think building > from source is very important. I also think the solution to correct > copyright/license meta-data for binary packages completely relies on > building from source (see my other mail in this thread). > >> Now we're two, but that's still not project consensus as can be seen in >> e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=830978#185. > > Make that three. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise >
