[Fedora-packaging] removal of pre-built files

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On 06/25/2009 02:00 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 06:39 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> A requirement to rebuild the later has never existed in Fedora.
>> They should be "rebuildable", if appropriate/feasible/neccessary for 
>> proper operation, but this was essentially left to the discretion of 
>> individual packagers and individual packages' demands
>>
>> That said, if there is something which I consider to be in need of 
>> further refinement, then its the definition of "binary" as being used in 
>> this section of the FPG.
> 
> A related item, how do you feel about files such as java script, that
> are generated from .java source via google web toolkit.  The java script
> file is not binary, and while it could be edited, it's not very friendly
> to editing.  However upstream would like to pre-generate the java script
> files as it removes a rather heavy build time requirement on google web
> toolkit.  So the content /could/ be regenerated, but it doesn't need to
> be.  Would these pre-generated files be acceptable to you in a Fedora
> package?
> 
My answer would be no.  Documentation is content.  java and javascript
are code.

-Toshio

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