On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 09:16:43PM +0200, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > I also have a similar problem with meshlab package I'm working on > (again). Upstream tarball includes several 3rd party sources, which > fortunately are all in Debian already. In this case the right thing to > do is clearly to build with Debian libraries, but should one also > repackage the source to get rid of the 3rd party code or not?
I would say it depends. If it is a huge upstream tarball and removing the 3rd party sources greatly reduces its size, it might be worthwhile. If for some reason you believe that the combined tarball is copyright-challenged, then repacking it without 3rd party sources is required, or course. Otherwise, the matching-md5sum-is-more-important rule holds. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
