Stripping info files from the jed-common package
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at debian.org
Mon Jan 22 14:44:54 CET 2007
* G. Milde <g.milde at web.de> [2007-01-22 09:08]:
> There is also the recommendation to keep the sources pristing, if
> possible.
Yes, unless there are non-DFGS-compliant files, which should be removed from
the upstream tarball. I am no license evangelist, but this is how Debian
works. There are several packages now in this situation, most of them are
very popular:
bash_3.1dfsg-6
firefox_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2
gdb_6.4.90.dfsg-1
gs_8.54.dfsg.1-4
imagemagick_6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.10
info_4.8.dfsg.1-3
kdelibs4c2a_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5
libdb4.2_4.2.52+dfsg-1
libxml2_2.6.27.dfsg-1
tetex-base_3.0.dfsg.3-1
texinfo_4.8.dfsg.1-3
texlive-common_2005.dfsg.2-1
xfree86-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4
> IMO the alternative should be considered (if we do not agree on keeping the
> info files) and jed 99.18 left with info files.
I have absolutely nothing against keeping the info files in the source
package, provided that John provides us with the source file (jed.ti) and
the licensing conditions are clarified.
--
Rafael
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