On 10/15/2015 05:23 PM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
well, I am, but I was giving a fact, not saying I would sponsor such hack, just mentioning
that $somebody else is already doing that on debian.
Embedding a library is an absolute no-go in Debian, particularly
with core stuff like libpng. The security team is going to kill
you when they find out.
The fact that someone managed to sneak their packages with an
embedded library into the archive doesn't make it any better. You
should talk to the FTP team with a beer over this. They'll tell
you how much they have to reject just because people's packaging
is sometimes really horrible despite the fact that DDs should
know better!
personally I would like to see the transition start, but with the libstdc++5 ongoing one
I don't think -release will ever give an ack for it
(modulo somebody working on it)
We already have several huge transitions going on. I am maintainer
and co-maintainer for m68k, sh4, sparc, sparc64 and x32 and I am
happy about any transition which is currently not going on yet
as transitions cost a lot of pain for us.
Of course the package is now in a no-go state :(
Yes, that's my whole point. We can upload it like that. As simple
as that. A random emulator is not important enough that I start
a fight with the security or release team.
Adrian