On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 10:02 AM, Ben Finney <[email protected]> wrote: > Miroslav Kravec <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 9:38 AM, Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote: >> > https://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCodeCopies >> >> And, is there any official recommendation to get software (development >> tools) rather packaged, and used as build dependency, than being >> copied? > > I'm not sure I understand the question. I think you are asking about > general-purpose, third-party-maintained development tools. > > If so: yes, the recommendation is that third-party-maintained software > should not be bundled, but instead packaged for general use in a > separate Debian package. That's what the document at the above URL is > discussing; it includes a link to the relevant Debian Policy section.
Well, policy https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#convenience-copies-of-code says, that a package should not include convenience copies of software, for which there's already a package in Debian archive. > If you mean something different, can you clarify? I mean, whether Debian community officially encourages developers to have their software packaged, if there's no technical need to include their software as convenience copy.
