On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:07:08PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:15:12PM +0200, Tommaso Moroni wrote: > >>Hi! > >> > >>I'm packaging kchmviewer, which uses a version of chmlib bundled > >>in the upstream tarball. > >> > >>Is it a Bad Thing to use that library instead of depending on the > >>official packaged one? > > > >Yes(TM), it is a Bad Thing(TM). > > > >If the official library is suitable, then use it. It will: > > > >- absolve you of providing security support for the duplicate code > >- make the resulting binary packages fewer or smaller > >- save space on end user systems and repository mirror sites > > > > Don't delete it form the upstream tarball though or your diffs will be huge. > Just disable the compilation in the makefiles. > > Carlo An excellent point. I imagine that it would also be permissible to repackage the .orig.tar.gz file so that it is gone from there as well. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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