On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 09:09:23PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > When the source code of a program comes with another program inside, and > this program is outdated (this program is also released as a tar.gz file > and updated), what is the correct to do? I want to maintain packages of > both programs and one doesn't depend on the other. Should I remove the > directory that contains the source of the other program and repack the > source? > For example. foo and bar are two programs. Both have a source code > foo.tar.gz and bar.tar.gz but inside foo.tar.gz there is a directory > bar, containing an outdated version of bar's source code. > And foo doesn't need bar. > > I started to discuss this on #debian-mentors, but I had to quit. > > Do I need to remove the outdated bar/ or I can let it there? personally i would leave it there to preserve the pristine upstream tarball, but only if: - the program isn't used, especially if it is a license - the included program is also dfsg-free cu robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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