Jérémy Lal wrote: > I'm in a situation where upstream tarball is not very nice; > e.g. it's shipped with 3MB of dependencies, most of which > are already packaged. > I suppose a patch has no meaning here, since it consists in > removing the dependencies from the tarball. Another patch consists > in correcting the makefile to use already installed libraries instead > of rebuilding them. That one could be meaningfull. > Is doing a get-orig-source taking care of cleaning up upstream > a good solution ?
You *really* should to use the system ones, patch the build system if needed. Removing the libraries is not needed, you may want to do it anyways as a service to others. If some dependencies are not packaged yet, you should package them separately before and then package the software you want. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
