Is this a dsfg violation?

[Scott Dier]

Additionally -- already patched files outside the debian directory is OK.

Generally, the orig.tar.gz is untouched and the diff.gz are the patches. 
  Some packages use additional patch management which are stored in 
debian/.  Some packages have to remove certain objects before 
redistribution (kernel in some cases, firefox in this case, etc) so 
those bits are removed or edited before the orig.tar.gz is made as to 
meet legal requirements.

As far as I know, this is how it works in Debian and expect it to work 
similarly in this case, so I don't see a problem.

THanks,

Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote:
> Em Qui, 2006-10-19 às 06:45 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano escreveu:
>> I grabbed a fresh firefox source from edgy, and a quick grep gives
>> already patched files outside debian/ directory.
>>
>>         firefox-1.99+2.0rc2+dfsg$ grep -lR -i "ubuntu" *
>>         browser/app/firefox-branding.js 
>>         browser/base/content/utilityOverlay.js
>>         browser/locales/en-US/chrome/branding/brand.dtd
>>         browser/locales/en-US/chrome/branding/brand.properties
>>         browser/locales/en-US/chrome/browser-region/region.properties
>>         browser/locales/en-US/profile/bookmarks.html 
>>         debian/BBC-RSS-URL-promise.txt
>>         debian/changelog
>>         debian/control
>>         debian/debsearch.src
>>         debian/rules
>>         debian/wikipedia.src
>>         extensions/spellcheck/locales/en-US/myspell/en-US.dic
>>         extensions/spellcheck/locales/en-US/myspell/mozilla_words.diff 
>>         toolkit/components/printing/content/printdialog.js
>>         xpfe/browser/resources/locale/en-US/region.properties
>>         xpfe/global/resources/content/printdialog.js
>>
>> but according to dfsg, 
>>
> 
> In addition to what Michael Poole said, I'd like to remind you that the
> Debian Free Software Guidelines apply to Debian, and Ubuntu may use a
> different set of guidelines to consider software for inclusion in main.
> 
> Cheers,
> Evandro
> 
> 


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