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Re: Package ghostwriter E source-is-missing



On 2021-01-24 12:05 +0100, passiongnulinux@gmail.com wrote:
> hello Robin,
> 
> Thanks for this answer, I suddenly have to remove the "3rdparty" folder
> from the sources, because otherwise Lintian will give me other errors
> and look for dependencies from the Debian repositories. Am I good?

That is quite a good way to deal with the issue. It stops you shipping
code that is not strictly free software (not in preferred form),
removes bloat, and ensures that system versions of libraries are being
used (you may need to patch upstream to make this actually work - just
removing the dir may or may not be sufficient depending on how the
code is linked/used.

You may also find that _some_ of the 3rd party stuff is not in debian
already so you will need to package that first.

Or you may find that it is modified from the debian versions (in ways
that matter) in which case you need to get thosepatches into the
debian package, or stick with the 3rd-party version. Or it requires a
different version from the one(s) available in debian inwhich case
agin you either need to fix it to work with the version in debian or
stick with the 3rd-party version.

Does that all makes sense?

Wookey
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