Bug#732139: PNG is not the preferred form for modification

[Michael Gilbert]

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 1:32 PM, James Cowgill wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 17:31 +0100, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
>
>>
>> your new package python-sfml (1.5.1) contains two PNGs:
>>    ./python-sfml-1.3/doc/source/tutorials/system-thread-ordered.png
>>    ./python-sfml-1.3/doc/source/tutorials/system-thread-mixed.png
>> as they are created with gimp, this is not the preferred form for
>> modification (-> DFSG 2). So please add the corresponding XCF files
>> to the package.
>>
>
> Hi Thorsten,
>
> Thanks for looking at the package.
>
> Although these images were created using GIMP, I don't think the XCF
> files (if they even exist) are any more "preferred" than the PNG files
> in the package. Those images are just screenshots of the windows console
> with no apparent modifications made to them. So I presume that the only
> use of GIMP in this was converting the result to PNG format - so any XCF
> files won't give you any more over importing the PNG file anyway.

Maybe (and this may not be easy) the screenshots could be done at build time?

Best wishes,
Mike