Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Emmanuel Bourg Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.java Subject: Re: RFS : libcharts4j-java Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 17:20:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-java@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-java-request@lists.debian.org Sun Jul 26 15:12:52 2020 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-11.901 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI=-5, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5.5 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/22397 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/023c3749-0d38-b613-8ee7-7fa1f532b166@apache.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 21 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 17:12:06 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <023c3749-0d38-b613-8ee7-7fa1f532b166@apache.org> X-Original-References: <298942a9-b205-5dd9-bcd2-a752e9934225@apache.org> <30c9aaf8-e31b-7cb2-ffa0-d21aa3d7d539@apache.org> <20200726083116.GI8994@an3as.eu> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.java:11802 On 26/07/2020 10:31, Andreas Tille wrote: > I admit I personally think that having some suffix (alternatively for > +dfsg the suffix +ds is used for "Debian source) is very informative > when deriving from the original upstream download tarball. There is > also a lintian warning (or info?) issued if Files-Excluded is used but > the change is not "advertised" in a version suffix. I agree here with > lintian due to my personal preference. If features were removed to make the package DFSG compliant I agree that the suffix provides a useful indication. Otherwise it raises a doubt that something important may have been removed, and that's not the case when the project was merely cleaned from unwanted build files. > Could you please remove the now unused Git repository in Salsa to avoid > confusion? Done Emmanuel Bourg