Re: Packages that require enormous amounts of source
Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> writes:
> In my opinion, this is an unreasonable amount of source code to
> include in a source package, since all the source code is available
> elsewhere. However, Debian policy requires *all* applicable source to
> be included in a source package (right?), and a bug was recently filed
> against Checker to this effect.
Maybe you could use the orig.tar.gz from other packages.
You should at least include the md5sums and URLs of all these
tarballs, if you're not already.
Guy
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