[Pkg-javascript-devel] whether or not to sometimes remove questionably useful binaries from node modules

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jérémy Lal (2014-07-01 16:35:59)
> Andrew, modifications you make to the upstream files are supposed to 
> be done in one of two ways (and directly removing files from the gbp 
> repository is not a way):
> 
> - repackage upstream tarball to exclude files for DFSG reasons
> The simplest way to do that is through [0] and uscan. The fact a 
> upstream tarball was repackaged is advertised in the version of the 
> debian package, like 3.0.1+dfsg-1

...and if doing above, you also must mention in debian/copyright which 
files were stripped.


 - Jonas

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