Bug#613788: ITP: dropbox -- secure backup, sync and sharing util

[Aron Xu <happyaron.xu@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 18:11, Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208@gmail.com> wrote:
> The former Dropbox maintainer's sponsor has suggested to me that instead of
> including _librsync.so itself in the source tarball, that I simply include
> rsync as a build dependency and during the build process, create a symlink
> to librsync.so from Debian's own rsync package, to whatever directory
> Dropbox is installed in. I could also do this for any libraries that are
> already present in Debian's repositories (i.e. use symlinks instead of
> actually including the library in the tarball). After doing so, would I
> still have to include source code for rsync inside the Dropbox package?
> Vincent

That would be okay on LGPL/MIT-style licensed libraries, but you still
need to audit all files provided in the tarball if there are problems
and make sure the package works as usual after applying the trick.
Then you'd better make a source tarball that removed those
non-distributable files

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Regards,
Aron Xu