Bug#752224: [blender] Some sources are not included in your package

Matteo F. Vescovi mfvescovi at gmail.com
Sat Jun 21 11:53:02 UTC 2014


Hi Bastien!

On Jun 21, 2014 12:18 PM, "Bastien ROUCARIES" <roucaries.bastien at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Package: src:blender
> Version:2.70a-2
>
> user: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> usertags: source-is-missing
> severity: serious
> X-Debbugs-CC: ftpmaster at debian.org
>
> Hi,
>
> Your package seems to include some files that lack sources
> in prefered forms of modification:
>
> release/scripts/addons/netrender/js/jquery-ui.js
>
> (you may use the packaged jquery-ui package. BTW you could may use
> packaged jquery instead of your one).
>
> According to Debian Free Software Guidelines [1] (DFSG) #2:
>  "The program must include source code, and must allow distribution
>   in source code as well as compiled form.".
>
> This could also constitute a license violation for some copyleft
> licenses such as the GNU GPL.
>
> In order to solve this problem, you could:
> 1. repack the origin tarball adding the missing source to it.
> 2  add the source files to "debian/missing-sources" directory
>
> Both way satisfies the requirement that we ship the source. Second option
> might be preferable due to the following reasons [2]:
>  - Upstream can do it too and you could even supply a patch to them,
> thus full filling our social contract [3], see particularly §2.
>  - If source and non-source are in different locations, ftpmasters may
>    miss the source and (needlessly) reject the package.
>  - The source isn't duplicated in every .diff.gz/.debian.tar.* (though
>    this only really matters for larger sources).
>
> You could also ask debian-qa at lists.debian.org or #debian-qa for more
> guidance.
>
> [1] https://www.debian.org/social_contract.en.html#guidelines
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736873#8
> [3] https://www.debian.org/social_contract

I was aware of this issue (reported as an error by lintian) but I uploaded
the actual package anyway, waiting to find a possible and elegant solution
to the problem.

I already reached a similar target dropping the installation of another .js
file provided in upstream tarball.
At that time, I tried the same with jquery-ui.js but the trick didn't work.

I'll try to solve this issue as soon as I've ended my holidays and I'll be
back to keyboard.

Thanks for reporting this officially.

Cheers.

-- 
Matteo F. Vescovi | Debian Maintainer
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