Hello list, On 26.08.2015 15:56, Philip Hands wrote: > Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> writes: > >> [...] >> 3. ship a pre-compiled/minified version of the library with sources. >> >> I know this sucks, but if I have to pick my poison, I'll pick the last >> one. I have tried the second solution in the past, nobody wins (more >> work for the maintainer, more bugs, unhappy users). > > [...] > How are we supposed to check that the source and the minified version > are actually equivalent? How are we supposed to provide security > support for this stuff? > > If we were to decide that distributing this was OK (something that I'm > not currently persuaded of) then I'd suggest that the packages need to > go into contrib.
+1. At a time, Debian has set high standards for the software in the 'main' section. If as the project we agree that we cannot uphold those standards anymore, we should either: a) move such software out from 'main' (to 'contrib' or whatever else applicable); or b) openly and officially relax our standards, stating that an ability to build modified software is not a requirement anymore. Otherwise we are hiding the problems and deceiving ourselves. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF C++ GNU/Linux userspace developer, Debian Developer