Hi, Am Dienstag, den 08.09.2009, 11:06 +0100 schrieb Mark Brown: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 09:34:02AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > some haskell packages (haskell-zlib and haskell-digest) have a copy of > > the crc32.h file from the zlib source distribution in their tarballs, > > one without source. This is not the way we like it in Debian. It would > > be nice if zlib1g-dev would contian the crc32.h file, so that we can > > ignore the copies and build from a single source. > > I'd just take a copy for this purpose; the header would be a bit of a > namespace violation and the header isn't really intended for independant > use anyway. The fact that it's a header file at all is an artifact of > the implementation more than a desire to provide an API.
I see your point. What is your opinion with regard to the source of crc32.h (i.e. crc32.c) – do you think that zlib’s license requires this to be copied along the header file, if crc32.h is distributed somewhere else? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: [email protected] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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