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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 14.06.2015 um 17:18 schrieb 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?

Btw, I don't see this MBF being announced on debian-devel.


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