[Debian-med-packaging] hmmer2_2.3.2-6_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Laszlo Kajan]

Hello Andreas and team!

So ok, both hmmer2 and hmmer (3.0, in main) have this problem. Apparently this slipped through before, but not now.

There are sources for Userguide.pdf in [1].

My understanding of the policy [2] is that in case the source package contains Userguide.pdf without sources, the source pack can not be in
main. Is this correct?

I am going to email [3] and ask for the inclusion of the Userguide.pdf source in the tarball they distribute.

But for now, what should I do?:

* Repack the source of hmmer and hmmer2 without Userguide.pdf?

Best regards,

Laszlo

[1] https://svn.janelia.org/eddylab/eddys/src/hmmer
[2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html
[3] hmmer at janelia.hhmi.org

On 28/07/12 16:48, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 03:42:55PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
>> Back at the time I had not know that we can have
>> free and non-free stuff mixed with the same source package.
> 
> Hmmm, are you sure?  IMHO it is just the source that should not contain
> any non-free stuff.  How can a source containing only free stuff
> generate a non-free binary?  Any links? 
> 
> From my perspective an alternative would be just to provide a link in
> README.Debian or whereever that users could download the pdf  (in case
> you will not try to convince ftpmaster that *this* pdf is really the
> source ...)
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>         Andreas.
>