François-Régis <f...@miradou.com> writes: > As initiator of the thread, I may recall that the question we ask is > "Should we remove from source tarball minified versions of source > files existing in tarball".
An outcome of the thread is to show that the original question is ill-posed, because it hides some important assumptions. Those assumptions are now evident, and important questions come from them: * How do we know – and demonstrate to anyone who asks – the truth of the assertion that the source is actually the corresponding source of the exact non-source file? My answer to this is: Currently, we don't know that at all. We take upstream's word for it, though upstream frequently has no incentive to guarantee that to us and can easily make mistakes in ensuring it. * How do we maximise the certainty that what we ship in the source package has no files without corresponding source? My answer to this is: 100% certainty can be achieved by automatically omitting the non-source files from the Debian source package. * How do we maximise the certainty that what we ship in *every future version* of the source package has no files without corresponding source? My answer to this is: Again, 100% certainty can be achieved by automatically omitting the non-source files every time from every Debian release of the source package. * The Debian Social Contract obliges us to provide corresponding source for every file in Debian. Should we rate the promise so unimportant that we risk shipping a file without corresponding source? My answer to this is: No, we should do what we can to meet that obligation, and guarantee it to our recipients in a manner that they can independently verify. Whatever your answers to these questions are, I hope you can understand that they are necessary to provide context to the question you would like answered. -- \ “Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in | `\ these.” —Ovid (43 BCE–18 CE) | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list Pkg-javascript-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel