[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#591383: about not building swf files from source

[Gerfried Fuchs]

	Hi!

 The initial message about this issue was pretty terse and I hope to
offer additional information to you through this message.

 The issue your package is facing might be divided into two groups:
Packages that have the source to the .swf file available (like in .fla
or .as form from what I understood) and packages that don't.

 For those with the source included the package is facing to be
potential moved from main to contrib. This is because packages in main
are required to only need tools that are available in main to produce
their binaries from their sources, and there unfortunately aren't such
tools in main (yet, TTBOMK). So moving them to contrib is an option to
them for keeping them as they are.

 For those without source included they have to go either to non-free
(if their license allows binary distribution without source) or they
have to get removed from the pool in case they are licensed under
something like GPL or similar which requires the source to be available,
too.

 One option available to both groups of packages is of course to remove
the flash files all together, if that's an option for your package.

 Hope this helps you for your decision on how to move on. Thanks for
your support and effort for Debian in any case!

 Enjoy!
Rhonda
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