Charliej wrote: > > With that said this is a quote from my upstream: > > "Whee, is this something you could take care of at install, delete and > then create a symlink. Or would this still violate this policy" > > Would this be a viable solution? (I told upstream I would ask) > > I don't think this is a viable solution because the lintian error would > still remain.
You should symlink the file provided by the other package, if lintian still complains it is a bug in lintian then. > > I think one of the reasons he is hesitant is that the removal of > "prototype" from the .tar.gz that he hosts would severely impact his M$ > Windows users (he has a rather large M$ Windows community). Actually I > could care less about M$ Windows users, but he does. > > As I see it to comply with Policy 4.13 "prototype" will have to be > removed from upstreams .tar.gz.. Am I correct in this assumption? No, he doesn't need to remove his copy of prototype, it is _you_ who needs to prevent it from being installed in the package you build. > > This brings me to the next point what if upstream refuses to remove > "prototype" from the .tar.gz? > > Thx > Charlie Cheers, -- Atomo64 - Raphael Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
