Re: Repackaging question

[Benjamin Mesing <bensmail@gmx.net>]

Hello,

> > They can be removed to use less space and be sure not to include code
> > that has been build with non free dependencies.
> 
> The space argument is rather weak IMHO, and certainly shouldn't warrant 
> rebuilding a source tarball only for that purpose. (Or do you have a source 
> for this advice?) And avoiding to install pre-built binaries is easy.

I have another argument for repackaging in this particular case:
The upstream zip contains a jar, which in turn contains the source code
of the program. However, I need to patch the source contained in the
jar. This is quite painful in terms of applying those patches.

Regards Ben