Phil Morrell dijo [Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 02:04:44AM +0100]: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 01:03:35AM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: > > - should a package debian/control list bundled dependencies to make > > sure to avoid duplications ? > > Maybe? I noted in my final paragraph that Fedora has a mechanism for > this that we don't, but perhaps Provides is sufficient. Although it very seldom the case IMO. Even if we don't take into account the horrible practice of vendoring *and then patching* libraries done by some upstreams, we do ship (and our shipped packages depend on) specific versions of libraries. One of the ugly things about vendoring is that they bundle _other_ specific versions of libraries -- and dependencies are often quite hard to update without wrecking havoc in its whole ecosystem :-( > I omitted this from the policy side, because it seems like this is > already answered in ftp-master practice. Provided the vendored copy is > not used during the build and unless there is a *different* reason for > repacking with Files-Excluded, then I see no reason to remove it. Completely agree. Many packages vendor i.e. rendering libraries to produce their documentation at build time, and such libraries are not needed for the package once built. My example might not be great, because we still like building the documentation (and thus they would not qualify for Files-Excluded, only for omitting them from the binary package), but you get the idea :)
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