Re: what to do when upstream package is shipped with MB of dependencies?

[Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>]

Jérémy Lal wrote:

> I'm in a situation where upstream tarball is not very nice;
> e.g. it's shipped with 3MB of dependencies, most of which
> are already packaged.
> I suppose a patch has no meaning here, since it consists in
> removing the dependencies from the tarball. Another patch consists
> in correcting the makefile to use already installed libraries instead
> of rebuilding them. That one could be meaningfull.
> Is doing a get-orig-source taking care of cleaning up upstream
> a good solution ?

You *really* should to use the system ones, patch the build system if 
needed. Removing the libraries is not needed, you may want to do it anyways 
as a service to others.

If some dependencies are not packaged yet, you should package them 
separately before and then package the software you want.

-- 
Felipe Sateler