On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:04:12PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Embedded code copies > ==================== > > Developers are encouraged to communicate amongst their colleague > developers for cases where their packages have code in common with > other packages. For example a package which contains an embedded > library which is also packaged should be encouraged to use the shared > library, as this means a potential security update only requires a > single update. > > A prominently horrible example is the xpdf code base which is embedded > in ten different source packages in Debian Sarge. (For Debian Etch > this could already be reduced significantly thanks to the xpdf library > fork named poppler and for Lenny we'll reduce it even more) > > You need to tell us about such cases, we can't review all of Debian's > 18k packages on our own. >
Wouldn't be the case to add a suitable control field, as proposed in a previous thread for that case? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]