On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:15:43AM +0100, Maximilian Gaß wrote: > I e-mailed upstream about this, but he basically considers this a feature > and, remembering of the OpenSSL fiasco, warned not to fiddle in upstream > code.
Wow, nice upstream. Maybe you should reconsider whether this code belongs in Debian at all; we have enough hostile upstreams without seeking them out. > As per Policy 3.8.0, packages should not include copies of other packages. > I think the best way would be to fix the library and provide another way > to include additional fields into its data structures, using the classic > approach of a pointer to userdata. However, that would require us to patch > any application using libev this way. However, there are zero packages in Debian that use libev. So I think this is the correct solution - first fix the libev package (in cooperation with upstream) to not require build-time customization, then work with the upstreams of packages currently embedding libev to support building against the shared version. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
