On 21 April 2010 16:49, John H Palmieri <[email protected]> wrote:
> According to our documentation, the "src" directory in an spkg should
> contain the "vanilla upstream code".  I've seen a few spkg's that
> modify this by deleting stuff:
>
>  - they might delete documentation (as long as it's not used in any
> way by Sage)
>  - they might delete a Mercurial repository (as long as it's just the
> upstream repo, not the one that's supposed to be there)
>
> These changes make the spkg files much smaller, which is good.  But
> are these acceptable changes?
>
> --
> John

It has been customary to put a note in SPKG.txt under "Special
Instructions" things like

* Delete documentation in src/foobar as not needed
* Delete binary compaineis in src/bin
* Delete huge files in src/huge has not needed

So people know stuff has been removed.

Like you, I have seen things added too.

Dave

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