* Jonas Smedegaard (d...@jones.dk) wrote:
> Quoting Eric Dorland (2015-05-19 21:44:50)
> > What's the current thinking on embedded libraries in source code? One 
> > of my packages has an embedded (and slightly modified) version of 
> > libevent that it links statically. It doesn't seem like Built-Using is 
> > the right thing to use in this situation since it's not embedding 
> > another package. However it seems like a good idea to make this 
> > information visible somehow, for example to help the security-team 
> > find vulnerable embedded versions of software.
> 
> I believe this is what you seek:
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCodeCopies

Excellent, thanks! Seems unfortunate that this metadata can't be
maintained in the package rather than in this hand curated
list. Perhaps a debian/source/embeds file?


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