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diff --git a/mail-templates/source-is-missing b/mail-templates/source-is-missing new file mode 100644 index 0000000..349391e --- /dev/null +++ b/mail-templates/source-is-missing @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Subject: [{Package}] Some sources are not included in your package +Package: {Package} +Version: {Version} +user: lintian-maint@debian.org +usertags: source-is-missing +severity: serious +X-Debbugs-CC: ftpmaster@debian.org + +Hi, + +your package includes some files that seem to lack sources +in preferred forms of modification: + +{list of files} + +According to Debian Free Software Guidelines [1] (DFSG) #2: + "The program must include source code, and must allow distribution + in source code as well as compiled form." + +In some cases this could also constitute a license violation for some +copyleft licenses such as the GNU GPL. (While sometimes the licence +allows not to ship the source, the DFSG always mandates source code.) + +In order to solve this problem, you could: +1. add the source files to "debian/missing-sources" directory. +2. repack the origin tarball and add the missing source files to it. + +Both ways satisfy the requirement to ship all source code. The second option +might be preferable due to the following reasons [2]: + - Upstream can do it too and you could even supply a patch to them, thus + fulfilling our social contract [3], see particularly ยง2. + - If source and non-source are in different locations, ftpmasters may + miss the source and (needlessly) reject the package. + - The source isn't duplicated in every .diff.gz/.debian.tar.* (though + this only really matters for larger sources). + +You could also ask debian-qa@lists.debian.org or #debian-qa for more +guidance. + +[1] https://www.debian.org/social_contract.en.html#guidelines +[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736873#8 +[3] https://www.debian.org/social_contract |