On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Jérémy Lal wrote: > I'm in a situation where upstream tarball is not very nice; > e.g. it's shipped with 3MB of dependencies, most of which > are already packaged. > I suppose a patch has no meaning here, since it consists in removing > the dependencies from the tarball. Another patch consists in > correcting the makefile to use already installed libraries instead > of rebuilding them. That one could be meaningfull.
You should (must, IMO) fix the building so that it uses only the libraries that Debian distributes. See policy §4.13. > Is doing a get-orig-source taking care of cleaning up upstream > a good solution ? The correct solution is to get upstream to distribute the dependencies in a separate tarball (if they distribute them at all). Baring that, there's little reason to remove the dependencies unless: 1) you're already repacking the source 2) they're large in comparison to the actual distributed code in either case, I'd strongly consider writing a get-orig-source target which dealt with removing the superfluous bits of source. Don Armstrong -- He quite enjoyed the time by himself in the mornings. The day was too early to have started going really wrong. -- Terry Pratchet _Only You Can Save Mankind_ p133 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
