>I think a source distribution should contain the raw, unprocessed source files.
What do you mean by "raw"? If I check out the same repository on Windows and macOS, I would get **different** file contents for *.java files. Windows machine would check out files as CRLF, and macOS would checkout the same files as LF. It is something that is controlled with https://github.com/apache/calcite-avatica/blob/512bbee4aa24ef9fb8106d0286d1243679dce2d0/.gitattributes#L2 Vladimir
