Florian Just curious, how do you deal with a file like this
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/4e7f3aac979b/test/sun/security/krb5/ktab/HighestKvno.java Is the byte array inside considered binary? Thanks Max On Apr 30, 2014, at 18:54, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 04/29/2014 02:35 PM, Alan Bateman wrote: > >> The other thing that came up previously is distributions that have a >> policy of not allowing binary files. If I'm not mistake then they are >> deleted by downstream patches, which in this case would lead to a test >> failure. > > Debian and Fedora are concerned with binary files which have closed source > files. These are stripped when noticed. There is no indiscriminate deletion > of binary files during the packaging process. > > The Debian packaging tools had a problem with shipping binary data in local > changes, but that's history now. > > -- > Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
