Tyler Hicks: > On 01/20/2017 09:46 AM, intrigeri wrote: >> Tyler Hicks: >>> In Ubuntu, I was planning on using the pre-generated pdf. >> >> Then I guess we should simply agree to disagree about this aspect of >> Free Software :)
> I don't even know if I disagree with you on this topic. I just don't > have strong convictions about using a PDF that upstream generated and > was instead excited about the simplified build process. In the time that > it'd take us to enjoy a single round of beers, I bet you could convince > me that it is the wrong way of thinking. :) I'm not sure when we'll meet face to face to enjoy this conversation, and it might be in a while, so let's try over email. We'll certainly manage to find other good discussion topics whenever we manage to meet each other in tofu-space :) So, this is about the following use case, that I happen to care about: As a Debian user, I want to be able to build a modified package Given I've noticed a bug in techdoc.pdf When I edit the corresponding source file And I run dpkg-buildpackage Then I expect the resulting package to include an updated techdoc.pdf I know that quite a few packages don't behave this way, and it's not clear to me what Debian's collective position on this topic is. My own current opinion is clear though: any binary artifact included in a binary package must be built from source during the package build. There might be cases when it's not feasible, for some reason I'm not aware of yet, but then I might be inclined to question whether it's really Free Software we're talking about. (Also, I'm very much unconvinced that "building this binary artifact from source in a reproducible manner is too hard, let's ship it in the source package and include it as-is in the binary package" is a satisfying way to ensure package reproducibility: one of the points of building package reproducibly is to ensure that the resulting binary package is indeed built from the source it's supposed to be, and I like the "preferred form of modification" definition for "source".) Cheers, -- intrigeri -- AppArmor mailing list AppArmor@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/apparmor
