Nick Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:19:19PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: > > > > Should this be done in the debian diff, or a new orig.tar.gz? > > > > You would have to make a new orig.tar.gz. Debian is not allowed to > > distribute the "original" sources at all, since they aren't in the > > preferred form for modification. > > While there is no other form available to us, the uglified sources > *are* the preferred form for modification.
No, no, no. The preferred form is the preferred form for the author, for *anyone*. It's what I would want to have, it's the real, actual, genuine source. The preferred form is found by considering the *actual* forms which exist--and seeing which one of them is *actually* preferred. The uglified C code is *not* actually preferred, by anyone, to the pre-uglified source.
