[Petter Reinholdtsen] > I had a look at version 1.5.1, and discovered that it introduced three > new dependencies, googleapis, httpolyglot and yawl. The last one is > already in Debian, while the first two seem to be missing. I registered > RPFs for them to at least have done a small step in the right > direction.
An alternative to packaging these dependencies as independent packages, is to embed them in groovebasin like is already done with four of the dependencies. They are added as d/patches/ entries. It can be a nice way to get an updated version into the archive, while waiting for the new dependencies to make it into the archive on their own. Embedding copies is hard to maintain archive-wise, because any security fix need to be applied to all the embedded copies, so we should be reluctant do use that approach for much used code. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen