Lintian tag: source-contains-waf-binary

Type: error

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The source tarball contains a waf binary. This file is a Python script
with an embedded bzip2 archive, which is uncompressed and unpacked at
runtime.

Although corresponding sources can be easily extracted, FTP Team does not
consider waf binary as the preferred form of modification; it should be
provided unpacked instead, or completely removed, if possible.

You might want to follow these guidelines to obtain an unpacked waf:
https://wiki.debian.org/UnpackWaf

Please refer to https://wiki.debian.org/UnpackWaf and Bug#654523 for
details.

Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: build-systems/waf

Affected packages

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