Re: Source files

2015-10-15 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 15 octobre 2015 10:26 +1100, Ben Finney  : >> > I am personally convinced that nowadays the definition of source >> > should *no longer* be regarded as an open question: I think that the >> > most commonly used and accepted definition of source code is the one >> > found in the GNU GPL license.

Re: Source files

2015-10-15 Thread Ole Streicher
Ángel González writes: > On 15/10/15 00:50, Riley Baird wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 23:47:02 +0200 >> Francesco Poli wrote: >> >>> The alternatives you propose are vague at best. >>> >>> For further details on what I think about the definition of source, >>> anyone interested may read my essay:

Re: Source files

2015-10-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Ole Streicher wrote: > For one of my packages (python-astropy), I got a Lintian error that it > would contain a non-source file jquery.dataTables.js. This is mainly > discussed in a bug report > > https://bugs.debian.org/798900 FYI folks: the outcome of this bug

Re: Source files

2015-10-15 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Wise writes: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Ole Streicher wrote: > > > https://bugs.debian.org/798900 > > FYI folks: the outcome of this bug report is that the jQuery > dataTables plugin has been packaged properly and built from source > properly using the upstream build system. Great

Re: Source files

2015-10-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Charles Plessy writes ("Re: Source files"): > sorry for drifting that thread further... I can not help adding > that, the world being in perpetual change, the definition of source > will one day become an open question again. My favorite guess is > that at some point, it will be argued that the co