Hi all,
So, our FTPmasters have rejected the update (!) of stringtie.
On 01.11.20 13:00, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Hi Maintainer,
>
> sorry, going to reject the package this time.
>
> While the bloat here is not as large as some other package had, it
> still is bloat in the debian/ dir that does not really belong there.
> Those tests/data files ought to be much better placed in an own
> tarball, the archive can handle multi-tarball packages just fine.
I do not have the time to read up about it. @Nilesh, do you have the
energy for that by chance? And then we should somehow all learn about this.
Yes, I just committed the multi-orig tarball solution sometime ago. Please take a look[1].
I _really_ need an ACK - if this is done correctly.
> Additionally, your copyright file needs adjusting - the
> gclib/GBitVec.h file contains code taken forom LLVM, and that has a
> way different license than what you list currently.
Ok, this seems like fixable.
By the looks of it, it is an exact code copy of libgclib. Should we nuke directory entirely and use the gclib from debian?