[Pkg-octave-devel] Binary MEX files in octave-nan upstream tarball

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2011/9/27 Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr>:
> I have a question concerning the upstream tarball: it contains binary
> MEX files which must have been compiled with MATLAB by the upstream
> maintainer (this affects the current 2.4.1 tarball and the new 2.4.4
> tarball).
>
> I am wondering if this is DFSG/policy-compliant, or if we need to
> repackage the upstream tarball without these binary blobs.

It's not a DFSG violation. The source is there, and if you have
Matlab, you can recompile them and modify them. Up to you to repackage
the source tarball, but I don't see a reason to do so if it's more
trouble.

- Jordi G. H.