Control: severity -1 minor
Hi Dominique,
On 2016-05-10 01:52, Dominique Belhachemi wrote:
> Package: libsvm
> Version: 3.12-1.1
> Severity: serious
>
> The source package contains binary files, see
>
> https://sources.debian.net/src/libsvm/3.12-1.1/windows/
> https://sources.debian.net/src/libsvm/3.12-1.1/java/
I think there is a misunderstanding here: binaries per se are not a
violation of the Policy (which would indeed warrant a "serious"
severity). They are only a violation when the source is not provided.
See eg the following lintian tags with severity of just "pedantic":
* source-contains-prebuilt-windows-binary
* source-contains-prebuilt-java-object
In this particular case, the files in windows/ and java/ are just
pre-built binaries provided by upstream as a convenience to the user.
They are built from the very same source (see eg: Makefile.win).
Of course, it would better to repack and not include these at all, but
this is a minor issue.
> v3.12 is from 2012, please consider an update to a recent version (
> https://github.com/cjlin1/libsvm/releases )
Chen-Tse and I are already working on this.
Regards,
Christian
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