> Well, it's probably just a matter of taste. I found it easier toIf it was a master of taste i would do the same as you, get rid of convenience copies.
> strip the embedded libraries than to cherry-pick all the scattered
> licenses and gather them up in the debian/copyright. It's also much
> easier on our ftp-masters to review less sources.
The idea behind the links i gave above is to refrain people from repacking on
personal taste; and distribute *original* upstream tarballs.
Of course, once there is a good reason to do repack (typically dfsg) then you can remove
embedded convenience copies as well. But you might as well not exclude them.
Slightly unrelated : the version libsearpc 1.1.0+dfsg is misleading since
there is no DFSG involved in this repacking.