Bug#788729: [src:libgda5] Some sources are not included in your package

[Michael Biebl]

Am 14.06.2015 um 18:50 schrieb bastien ROUCARIÈS:
> Package: src:libgda5
> Version:  5.2.2-2
> user: lintian-maint at debian.org
> usertags: source-is-missing
> severity: serious
> X-Debbugs-CC: ftpmaster at debian.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Your package includes some files that seem to lack sources
> in prefered forms of modification:
>   
>     tools/jquery.js
> 
> According to Debian Free Software Guidelines [1] (DFSG) #2:
>  "The program must include source code, and must allow distribution 
>   in source code as well as compiled form."
> 
> In some cases this could also constitute a license violation for some
> copyleft licenses such as the GNU GPL. (While sometimes the licence
> allows not to ship the source, the DFSG always mandates source code.)
> 
> In order to solve this problem, you could:
> 1.  add the source files to "debian/missing-sources" directory.

And how does that help the package?

> 2. repack the origin tarball and add the missing source files to it.

Same here. What do we gain by adding the un-minified version?


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