On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:30:15PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > >I don't think it is worthwhile to try to delete them; the mere presence > >of these directories should not confuse anyone. > I tend to disagree since it is not instantly clear if these are used to > build the target. ldd clarifies the situation once the application is > built, though.
In what situation do you envision a problem if this is not instantly clear? I have exactly this situation with rrdtool and it has never been a problem. > >How were you thinking of deleting them? You say "delete...from the > >original source", but then say that .orig.tar.gz would be intact (which > >is good). > I am not a Debian developer (IANADD?), but I would prefer to have > README.Debian explain the situation and to reduce the original source by > the persistently unused directories. I do not think this is against the > debian policy since these files are not really part of the package that is > being packed, it is only a technical commodity to distribute these > independent files together with it. The orig.tar.gz should be pristine whenever possible. I recommend against modifying it just for the sake of removing some unused parts. It is not against policy to modify .orig.tar.gz, but I consider it to be in poor taste. -- - mdz
