* Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>, 2012-01-01, 18:33:
i. don't remove scons but just (minimalistic patch) make system wide usedthen you would need still to add its copyright/license into debian/copyright, just add a comment that those are not usedii (somewhat preferable). remove scons from within .orig.tar.gz
I disagree that (ii) is preferable. You should not repack upstream source unless you have to. (Please see ftp-master's reject FAQ.)
(optionally add +dfsg or .dfsg suffix to the version making it 0.3.17~pre2+dfsg-1)
Since the software would be repackaged for reasons that are unrelated to DFSG compliance, the "dfsg" suffix would be incorrect/confusing.
-- Jakub Wilk