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+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 §2.
+ - 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