Hi, On Wed, 6 Aug 2025 18:04:41 +0200 Antoine Le Gonidec <vv221@debian.org> wrote: > Beware that packaging augustus in addition to julius would lead to a > duplication of source code in the Debian archive, something we usually try to > avoid (cf. our recent work together on src:oxygencursors vs. src:oxygen). > > Maybe we should make an exception if we can not find a practical way to > avoid the duplication of julius source code (that augustus uses as a > base), but it would be nice to take some time to explore ideas about how > to avoid that first. in #debian-games we discussed two ways to avoid duplication: a) let src:julius build a binary package julius-source which includes the relevant source code of julius. src:augustus can then build-depend on julius-source and only has to include the patches on top of julius b) add the augustus patch stack to src:julius and then build src:julius twice: once without the patches and create the julius binary package. And once with the augustus patch and produce the augustus-game package. There is of course also always: c) forget about this optimization and just live with the duplication Thanks! cheers, josch
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