Control: reopen -1 Control: found -1 gegl/0.3.8-3 Hi Ian. On 2017-04-14 at 05:34 (-0700), ian_bruce@mail.ru wrote: > I was right -- it IS a Debian Policy violation: > > * 4.13 Convenience copies of code * > > Some software packages include in their distribution convenience > copies of code from other software packages, generally so that users > compiling from source don't have to download multiple packages. > Debian packages should not make use of these convenience copies > unless the included package is explicitly intended to be used in > this way. If the included code is already in the Debian archive in > the form of a library, the Debian packaging should ensure that > binary packages reference the libraries already in Debian and the > convenience copy is not used. If the included code is not already in > Debian, it should be packaged separately as a prerequisite if > possible. > > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-embeddedfiles > > That seems to describe this situation EXACTLY. OK. But "should" != "must". Anyway, I'm reopening the bug report for the sake of issue tracking. I'm very sorry but given that: - Debian is not my paid work, - I don't have time to work on this right now, - we are in hard freeze I'm not able to fix this in the next future... but your patches are always welcome. ;) Feel free to join the maintenance, if interested. Cheers. -- Matteo F. Vescovi || Debian Developer GnuPG KeyID: 4096R/0x8062398983B2CF7A
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