On Sat, 07 Jul 2018 00:25:15 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 04:40:44PM -0400, Kyle Edwards wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 21:00 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > If the libraries in question are DFSG-free themselves, there's no > > > DFSG issue and you don't need to remove them from the tarball (and > > > we'd generally encourage not modifying the upstream tarball > > > unnecessarily for upload to Debian). The policy about bundling is > > > separate from the DFSG. Of course it'd be incumbent on whoever's > > > doing the Debian upload to actually check the licensing status. > > Thank you Colin, this is good to know. In that case, I will investigate > > VTK's DFSG issues when I get a chance. If there's something in there > > with a licensing issue, then we as upstream would like to fix it. > Whilst everything Colin wrote is true, there is also the detail that we > do a copyright and license check for every file shipped in the tarball. > If there are too many convenience copies this can easily outgrow the > patience (or more simply the available time) of the maintainer, at which > point repacking the upstream tarball is way simpler, easier and quicker. > It's a convenience call the maintainer decides, but one that IMHO always > ought to be done because with our current tooling removing files from > the upstream tarball is an automated process that takes seconds, where > the license check easily takes much more.
In addition to what Colin and Mattia said, repackaging/removing convenience copies is sometimes also done for other reasons, e.g. - when the embedded files take a huge percentage of the package size - to make sure they are really not used during the build process In cases where third-party files are not removed for DFSG reasons, usually the version is not created with a +dfsg suffix but frequently with +ds (debian source). Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Bettina Wegner: für klein zaches
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