Source contains binary libs

[MestreLion]

The source package contains 2 binary shared libraries that have no source code at all. There is no mention of such files in any README* file:

$ find . -name *.so -o -name *.xpi
./py/selenium/webdriver/firefox/amd64/x_ignore_nofocus.so
./py/selenium/webdriver/firefox/x86/x_ignore_nofocus.so
./py/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.xpi

While the '.xpi' is just a renamed zip, it does contain several prebuilt libraries:

./platform/Linux_x86_64-gcc3/components/libwebdriver-firefox-latest.so
./platform/Linux_x86_64-gcc3/components/libwebdriver-firefox-previous.so
./platform/Linux_x86_64-gcc3/components/libwebdriver-firefox-esr-previous.so
./platform/Linux_x86_64-gcc3/components/libwebdriver-firefox-esr-latest.so
./platform/Linux_x86-gcc3/components/libwebdriver-firefox-latest.so
./platform/Linux_x86-gcc3/components/libwebdriver-firefox-previous.so
./platform/Linux_x86-gcc3/components/libwebdriver-firefox-esr-previous.so
./platform/Linux_x86-gcc3/components/libwebdriver-firefox-esr-latest.so
./platform/Linux_x86-gcc3/components/libwebdriver-firefox-ff3.so

Besides having no source, these libs are obviously platform-dependent, so python-selenium should not be packaged as architecture=all

Actually, sources *can* be found, but not in the upstream used as basis for this debian package ( https://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium ), which is just a python-only re-packaging of the "real" upstream, which is http://code.google.com/p/selenium/source/browse/

In that source tree, the code for the above mentioned libraries can be found at:

http://code.google.com/p/selenium/source/browse/cpp/linux-specific/x_ignore_nofocus.c
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/source/browse/cpp/webdriver-firefox/

[MestreLion (mestrelion)]

This is somewhat related to http://bugs.debian.org/636677

The package in Debian is still in (rather old) v2.2.0, but at least it's clearly marked as 'non-free'.

The Ubuntu package should mention such binary libs at least in debian/README.source

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770232 has a patch for the above.

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

Fixed in 2.48.0+dfsg1-2, which I just synced into Xenial.