Re: Bug#395252: ignore bug 395252 'mplayer embeds ffmpeg' for lenny
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 04:29:17PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:21:59AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 06/18/08 10:11, Mike Hommey wrote:
>
> > > Note iceweasel 3.0, which is planned for Lenny, while it contains
> > > embedded copy of code, does *not* use it. Find another example.
>
> > Contains embedded code, but doesn't use it?
>
> > And it hasn't been/can't be stripped out? (I've been in the
> > industry long enough to know that that is a symptom of serious,
> > systemic problems within the application.)
>
> It's fairly standard for upstreams to embed copies of libraries to ease
> installation from source - if upstream is clueful it'll only be a copy
> of the vanailla upstream and will only be used if a copy is not present
> on the system already. It's purely a tarball packaging thing and (bar
> licensing issues) there's little need to repack the upstream release for
> it.
In the present case, the upstream build system is not designed to cope
with the fact that embedded code is useless and external stuff is being
used.
Mike
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