Re: reftex needs to be upgraded.

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: > David Kastrup writes: > > > I think the "mere aggregation" angle does not cut it since it > > leaves the build system uncatered for. > > Yeah, I know you think that. You're still wrong. The GPL doesn't > require that Debian distribute debian/rules with every .deb built from > GPL sources, and it doesn't require us to distribute XEmacs.rules with > every -pkg.tar.gz. You are confused. .deb files are not even supposed to contain the source code to a package. They are only distributed accompanied with the corresponding Debian source file packages (from the same server, or available at no extra cost), and those certainly contain debian/rules. Your XEmacs package distribution does not include either instructions how to get the source, nor is the package-specific build source distributed alongside. Not on the same server, not on request. There are no XEmacs source packages containing the package specific scripts for building the binary packages. So don't use Debian packages as an excuse: Debian _does_ distribution of the complete sources and build scripts, as source packages accompanying the binary packages. Nobody but you claims that .deb is supposed to include source.

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: > David Kastrup writes: > > > I think the "mere aggregation" angle does not cut it since it > > leaves the build system uncatered for. > > Yeah, I know you think that. You're still wrong. The GPL doesn't > require that Debian distribute debian/rules with every .deb built from > GPL sources, and it doesn't require us to distribute XEmacs.rules with > every -pkg.tar.gz. You are confused. .deb files are not even supposed to contain the source code to a package. They are only distributed accompanied with the corresponding Debian source file packages (from the same server, or available at no extra cost), and those certainly contain debian/rules. Your XEmacs package distribution does not include either instructions how to get the source, nor is the package-specific build source distributed alongside. Not on the same server, not on request. There are no XEmacs source packages containing the package specific scripts for building the binary packages. So don't use Debian packages as an excuse: Debian _does_ distribution of the complete sources and build scripts, as source packages accompanying the binary packages. Nobody but you claims that .deb is supposed to include source.