On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 04:29:17PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:21:59AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 06/18/08 10:11, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > > Note iceweasel 3.0, which is planned for Lenny, while it contains > > > embedded copy of code, does *not* use it. Find another example. > > > Contains embedded code, but doesn't use it? > > > And it hasn't been/can't be stripped out? (I've been in the > > industry long enough to know that that is a symptom of serious, > > systemic problems within the application.) > > It's fairly standard for upstreams to embed copies of libraries to ease > installation from source - if upstream is clueful it'll only be a copy > of the vanailla upstream and will only be used if a copy is not present > on the system already. It's purely a tarball packaging thing and (bar > licensing issues) there's little need to repack the upstream release for > it.
In the present case, the upstream build system is not designed to cope with the fact that embedded code is useless and external stuff is being used. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
