On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote: > Hello Bastien, > > On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 01:45:34PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIÈS wrote: >> I get some problems when reporting bug detected by source-is-missing >> tag in lintian. >> >> The main problems are: >> * minified javascript is source >> * I remove it using rules >> * It is not a problems because not included in the binary forms >> >> [...] >> >> I believe we should offer on policy pointer to ftp master reject faq >> and some description of common problems. > > Policy currently defers to the DFSG for a definition of what counts as > free software for Debian's purposes. Thanks to the DPL's delegation of > the ftp-masters, Policy defers to the DFSG plus the ftp-masters jointly. > > If we included text in Policy about common ways in which a package could > fail to satisfy DFSG, Policy would effectively cease to defer to the > ftp-masters. I don't think that Policy has the authority to do that, > and I don't think it would be desirable. > > A footnote with a link to the REJECT-FAQ sounds useful. Here's a patch.
Yes it will work thanks >> Maybe it belong to devref. > > Perhaps that should be a separate bug, if we're going to use this one to > discuss adding a footnote with a link to the REJECT-FAQ. > > -- > Sean Whitton
