Re: Convenience copies in upstream code: dependencies, removal, copyright, and other issues

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Thibaut Paumard <mlotpot.news@free.fr> writes:

> Le 21 oct. 09 à 11:03, Jonathan Niehof a écrit :
>
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Ben Finney
>> <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> * Remove the convenience copy from the original source archive, or
>>>  merely from the binary package?
>>
>> Related question:
>> Since the source package consists of orig.tar.gz and a .diff, how
>> would one "remove the convenience copy from the original source"?
>
> You would need to repack: unpack the tar.gz, remove the copy, re-tar.

Or delete it in clean if it isn't big and keeping it makes it
auto-detect the local copy. You still need to document its copyright
then though.

MfG
        Goswin