Hi, tl;dr => What is the Debian Policy about packaging forked software?
I couldn't find this problem discussed in Debian Policy nor with Google-helped search in mailing lists. If I missed something obvious or I'm posting to a wrong list, please let me know as bluntly as you wish. Recently, libx86emu [1] entered Debian as a prerequisite for the newest version of hwinfo. Libx86emu and friends exists in at least 3 different forms in Debian (see [2] for explanation) which are forked from a one single project. Now, I recently heard about viewnior which was ITP and RFP some time ago [3] and did not enter Debian because it contains a fork of libgtkview [4]. I encountered these two cases *myself*, what makes me think that it may be even a quite popular problem. Are there any (semi)official rules concerning this issue? Cheers, Tomasz [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/libx/libx86emu.html [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=733578#53 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=582090 [4] http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gtkimageview.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
