Path: csiph.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!3.us.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Julian Gilbey Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: a review of your bumblebee-status package Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 17:00:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Tue Jun 7 14:55:54 2022 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.11 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/19982 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/Yp9m7diwA2deFWkQ@d-and-j.net Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 15 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: Ben Westover , debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Original-Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 15:55:41 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <87sfohoni3.fsf@curie.anarc.at> <0f84e96b-c0eb-2d0e-fc7e-a8b272549aea@gmail.com> <87fskhb44h.fsf@angela.anarc.at> <367c1fcc-e57e-bde4-61eb-787042586a60@gmail.com> <87pmjkzitm.fsf@curie.anarc.at> <87v8tcy1b7.fsf@curie.anarc.at> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:14153 On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 10:51:08AM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > It seems to me that generated files shouldn't be shipped as part of the > source we distributed to users. Those files should be (re)generated at > build time. Ah, I understand you better now. Debian is full of generated files distributed in source packages. Most of them could be regenerated at build time, but it's often not done. (If they cannot be regenerated from source, then there's a DFSG issue.) A search of the mailing list archives would probably find many discussions about this; I'm not sure what the current consensus is. Best wishes, Julian