Bug#415315: gnome-applets: does not include source for gweather/Locations.xml

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Mon Mar 19 03:44:37 CET 2007


On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 01:50:22PM +0100, Piotr Engelking wrote:

> >Based on what?  The only evidence of this that I see in the source package
> >is an unused rule in gweather/Makefile.am describing how to generate
> >gweather/Locations.xml from gweather/Locations.xml.in and a bunch of other
> >files that *also* aren't shipped in the source.  It looks to me like an
> >obsolete build rule, not missing source.

> The upstream svn repository
> (http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-applets/trunk/gweather/) includes
> Locations.xml.in and doesn't include Locations.xml.

Fair enough.

> >Even if this were a case of a missing Locations.xml.in file, I don't see
> >that it would be a DFSG violation.

> It seems to be a violation of "the program must include source code"
> requirement.

This is data, not a program; the boundaries of source as pertains to data
are not clear-cut.

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