-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Pentchev schrieb: > As Paul Wise said, the removing would be a good idea if the packager > is not completely certain that the upstream build system will never, > ever, under any circumstances, use the bundled source even if it is > told to use the external libraries. Consider a build system that goes > like, "Oh, okay, you told me to use the external library, but something > changed, I can't quite locate the header file, or this definition is > no longer available, or something just messed up... no matter, if I > can't use the external library, I'll just use my own source, I *know* > things will build just fine this way!". Honest, I've seen upstream > sources that did that.
Isn't this something the maintainer should check before he uploads his package? - -- /* Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards, Patrick Matthäi GNU/Linux Debian Developer E-Mail: pmatth...@debian.org patr...@linux-dev.org Comment: Always if we think we are right, we were maybe wrong. */ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkp/NGAACgkQ2XA5inpabMeKlwCcClIpQkiinlVPm+4TxXSvr1Zk eOwAn36P7dtFpg4cHeIhAxxTMYQdw7Wz =Rt4n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org