On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:44 PM, rosea grammostola <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In this case I'm guessing the upstream package has an embedded code >> copy of gettext, I'd suggest asking upstream to remove it and switch >> to the standard system gettext. > > Is this something I can do myself to? How? http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#repackagedorigtargz The basic idea is to unpack the tarball, strip out the code and create a new tarball with a different version number. Ideally upstream would do this and make a new release. If upstream is MIA you could hijack the project. If you cannot do that because it is hosted on a private server instead of somewhere like sourceforge (see their abandoned project takeover process) then you could create a fork and convince maintainers of the package in other distros to join you. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
