On 23/08/18 08:34, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > Le jeudi 23 août 2018 à 06:59:45+0200, Alec Leamas a écrit : >> [may I keep bundled libraries?]
Thanks for reply! > I'd say that as soon as there's no other way of having your package work > (right, there's always another way, but my guess is that we don't expect > someone to do hours of work that'll be a pain in the ass to maintain just > for that, especially if the bundled library is a patched set of the original > one) properly, it won't be a problem Looking at [1], do you agree that this is along these lines? > That said, you'll have to reference properly the d/copyright file, I have updated d/copyright in [2]. > and you > should probably strip out all trivially out-strippable libraries that are > already packaged in Debian or packageable by themselves. ... and be done with it. If we could confirm this, that's what I'm actually looking for. In a previous packaging attempt this window seemed very small [3], but there has been water under bridges since that discussion. > [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-embeddedfiles Yes... but the interpretation of this is the very issue here. It's IMHO far from crystal-clear. Cheers! --alec [1] https://github.com/OpenCPN/OpenCPN/issues/1124 [2] https://github.com/OpenCPN/OpenCPN/pull/1100 [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2011/05/msg00004.html