On 11/15/2012 11:49 AM, Adam Heath wrote: > 4: Start filing issue trees in jira for pure upstream work. This > would include things like removing embedded libraries(maybe a > post-download kinda thing).
(responding to myself). Debian-policy says that any upload to main(and therefore is DFSG), must *only* be source. No pre-compiled stuff. This is what is meant by the 'preferred form for modification' aspect of licenses. Pre-compiled embedded jars in the *source* upload run afowl of that. To fix that, obviously means the source upload of ofbiz into debian will not contain the jars. It would actually be ok for the svn repo itself to contain the jars, but then the zip/tarball I would download from some webpage should not contain them. Being able to use an upstream download directly, means that the md5sum(or other hash) would match upstream, and it's easier to verify what has and has not been changed. However, now that the jars have been removed, ofbiz doesn't magically stop requiring them. So, somehow they have to be made available. That requires making debian packages of *all* the other projects, going back to the original *source* and compiling them, etc. And again following this no-precompiled-rule recursively thru all of the dependants.
