Re: build-depend on autoconf-archive and rm convenience copy in orig.tar.gz?
On 2022-01-19 11:03:15 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> writes:
>
> > Thanks for elaborating.
>
> > The concern is not licensing, but maintenance. It is covered in Debian
> > Policy § 4.13:
> > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#embedded-code-copies
>
> Debian packages should not make use of these convenience copies unless
> the included package is explicitly intended to be used in this way.
>
> The part after the "unless" is the case for autoconf-archive upstream:
> shipping a copy with your package is how it is intended to be used.
FYI, this is what we now do in GNU MPFR (there's only one file),
after we got a failure due to the upgrade to Autoconf 2.71:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=985458
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