On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 09:37:52AM +0200, Ronny Standtke wrote: > Package: toppler > Version: 1.1.6-2 > Severity: normal > > After running "apt-get source toppler" I expected to find all sources of > the toppler game. Unfortunately, the source package contains a big > binary blob "toppler.dat" even though the sources for this file > including a makefile are available here:
Hello Ronny, The file toppler.dat is actually an archive, like a tarball. It is not compiled code. > http://toppler.sourceforge.net/repos/datafile/ This is the source for the archiver, not for toppler.dat. > I don't know if including this file as a binary blob in the toppler > source package even conflicts with a Debian policy... Policy certainly allows to ship archives files. > Could you change the toppler source package so that the toppler.dat file > is created from sources when building the toppler binary packages? This would be most inconvenient. I would need to create custom source tarballs. What do you actually want to do ? Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
