On 14458 March 1977, W. Martin Borgert wrote: >> Dunno. It would be great if the line wasn't challenged just to prove a >> point > I don't think tincho nor myself want to challenge a line, we > would like to know where it is :~)
> If I package a compiler and put y.tab.c in the package, drop > grammar.y in d/m-s/, would it be OK or not? If you come up with a good reason for it, yes. But I doubt you would find one here. > If I don't even check that bison actually can process the file, would > it still be OK? No. You as the maintainer have to guarantee that the file is buildable with tools available in main. You can't if you don't ever check this. > There are some packages, that currently have only generated > JS files without the original sources (not only SASS and > CoffeeScript, but also large JS libraries, that are bundled from > many source files), which seems not in line with DFSG. > No need to eject them from main, however, because maintainers > can just add the missing sources in the way they like. If they don't then there sure is a reason to eject it from main. -- bye, Joerg http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_win_an_argument
