[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#645487: ensembl: includes GPL code without source

[Andreas Tille]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 03:51:18AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Unfortunately no such file exists --- I guess it disappeared during
> some upgrade.  The jars in the source package only contain class
> files, no .java source files.
> 
> Assuming that what debian/copyright says is correct, this would make
> the ensembl package non-distributable:

In how far would this make the package non-distributable?  Just
providing the binary without source is OK as long as you can provide
the source at request.  While you are correct that we should fix the
package I do not think that we need to take any more drastic action
like:
 
> notify the admins of snapshot.debian.org so the nondistributable
> versions can be removed. 

This would be pure overreaction.

Kind regards

       Andreas. 

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