Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the advantages of keeping them? > > - The time and effort that would be spent on locating and removing them > and maintaining a repackaged source archive can instead be spent on > writing code and fixing bugs. > - We maintain better relations with upstream authors, who presumably > would like their heartrending emails to accompany their work.
If we do this uniformly fpr all packages, then we're not singling out anybody and people will get over it. > - We can keep more source archives pristine. > > What are the advantages of removing them? > > - We save some bytes in the archive. Minor point. > - If a snippet turns out to be problematic, we won't have to spend effort > on removing it because we already spent that effort. > - We might convince some authors to write modifiable snippets instead. - Debian stays true to free content. - People can't complain about some non-free content being rejected while at the same time we accept and package other non-free content. > I don't see a convincing case here for removing them. And I don't see a convincing case here for keeping them. Peter
