2010/1/20 Jean-Christophe Dubacq <jcduba...@free.fr>: > Charles Plessy a écrit : >> Dear all, >> >> I would like to ask on this list a question I asked to the FTP team last >> December, and for which I have not received answer yet. >> >> Is tabular data in a binary format that can be read, written, modified and >> exported using free software acceptable for Debian, or shall we contact the >> upstream author to check if he used an intermediate format (be it text, or >> binary like .odt or .xls) and require the addition of this file to the >> source, >> or shall we provide a text export? > > I had a question similar to that for a program which comes bounded with > a trained neural network. There are files with raw weights. It is > possible to retrain on build the program, but it would take a very long > time, and the resulting network wouldn't even be the same. What is the > "source" in this case? I do not see what "editing" means in this context. >
Oh yeah, I remember that thread =) was quite interesting. If you are not sure do not make assumptions...... and that's what ftpmasters did. As for that neural network stuff do it in post-install scripts =) make the users happy as for why dpkg is using all cpu cores forever on that package. *just kidding* -- With best regards Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima), Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org