On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > > > As suggested by Ian on -devel (see attachment), it would be nice to have > > a way to remove files during unpack of a source package to hide non-free > > files from our users without stripping them from the original tarball. > > > I also prefer this approach over repacking upstream files so let's > > implement this feature. > > I'm pretty sure ftp-master isn't going to allow source packages with > non-free content in the main archive regardless of whether that content is > hidden on unpack (I certainly wouldn't if I were them), so implementing > this is kind of pointless for Debian.
Well, non-free doesn't imply non-redistributable. The feature doesn't cost much and the tools are used by other distributions which might have different policy. I have always found that repackaging to remove RFC was a waste of time, this feature would represent a good middle-ground IMO. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer ◈ [Flattr=20693] Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100814114247.gd12...@rivendell
