[Debichem-devel] Bug#692622: Bug#692622: Bug#692622: non-free files in upstream tarball ("The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

Ansgar Burchardt ansgar at debian.org
Mon Nov 12 12:51:47 UTC 2012


Hi,

On 11/11/2012 04:22 PM, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 07:29:16PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
>> Good news from upstream:
>>
>> "This is not a problem -- I will remove the JSON code from Jmol. It's
>> just used for the Molecular Playground, and it isn't necessary there
>> anyway."
> 
> They released a new version and I backpatched the changes.
> 
> The question is whether we should roll a new orig tarball, or remove the
> JSON code in a patch - I don't mind either way, it might be easier for
> the release team to just approve a new revision, but if ftp-masters
> insist on having the JSON stuff stripped from the tarball we can do that
> as well.

Please repack the upstream tarball. Otherwise we continue to ship
non-free files (in the source package).

Ansgar



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