Re: build-depend on autoconf-archive and rm convenience copy in orig.tar.gz?

2022-01-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-01-19 11:03:15 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > > Thanks for elaborating. > > > The concern is not licensing, but maintenance. It is covered in Debian > > Policy § 4.13: > > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#embedded-code-copies > >

Re: build-depend on autoconf-archive and rm convenience copy in orig.tar.gz?

2022-01-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2022-01-19 at 18:43 +0200, Thomas Koch wrote: > My package ships two convenience copies from autoconf-archive in it's > m4 folder. Should I In my experience with libpst, it had embedded copies of Python/boost macros from autoconf-archive that were modified and the modifications hadn't

Re: build-depend on autoconf-archive and rm convenience copy in orig.tar.gz?

2022-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Thanks for elaborating. > The concern is not licensing, but maintenance. It is covered in Debian > Policy § 4.13: > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#embedded-code-copies Debian packages should not make use of these convenience copies

Re: build-depend on autoconf-archive and rm convenience copy in orig.tar.gz?

2022-01-19 Thread Stefan Weil
Am 19.01.22 um 18:44 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: Quoting Stefan Weil (2022-01-19 18:07:28) As I wrote in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949119#15 autoconf-archive is not needed for building because the two required files are also provided as part of the Tesseract source tree.

Re: build-depend on autoconf-archive and rm convenience copy in orig.tar.gz?

2022-01-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Stefan Weil (2022-01-19 18:07:28) > Am 19.01.22 um 17:43 schrieb Thomas Koch: > > > I searched but apparently this has not yet been discussed anywhere below > > lists.debian.org. > > > > My package ships two convenience copies from autoconf-archive in it's m4 > > folder. Should I > > >

Re: build-depend on autoconf-archive and rm convenience copy in orig.tar.gz?

2022-01-19 Thread Stefan Weil
Am 19.01.22 um 17:43 schrieb Thomas Koch: I searched but apparently this has not yet been discussed anywhere below lists.debian.org. My package ships two convenience copies from autoconf-archive in it's m4 folder. Should I a) leave these files and add the corresponding data to d/copyright

Re: build-depend on autoconf-archive and rm convenience copy in orig.tar.gz?

2022-01-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Thomas Koch (2022-01-19 17:43:39) > I searched but apparently this has not yet been discussed anywhere below > lists.debian.org. > > My package ships two convenience copies from autoconf-archive in it's m4 > folder. Should I > > a) leave these files and add the corresponding data to

build-depend on autoconf-archive and rm convenience copy in orig.tar.gz?

2022-01-19 Thread Thomas Koch
I searched but apparently this has not yet been discussed anywhere below lists.debian.org. My package ships two convenience copies from autoconf-archive in it's m4 folder. Should I a) leave these files and add the corresponding data to d/copyright or b) leave these files and don't bother about