On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Vasudev Kamath wrote:

> Friendica modifies the php library it is depending on heavily so it
> ships the embedded php library source along with it. Also it
> uses tinymce which is also highly modified version so If I symlink
> debian's version of tinymce it will render friendica useless. Same
> goes for embedded PHP libraries. But lintian barks at me saying I'm
> voilating policy by shipping these libraries along with friendica
> package.
>
> So I require some suggestion on how I can handle this situation.

Do the usual things for embedded code copies:


Take a look at policy and this wiki page:

http://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCodeCopies

Notify the security team so they can fix any duplicate security issues
caused by the duplicated code.

Work with the relevant upstreams to unfork things.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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