On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 03:30:02PM +0200, Dirk Stöcker wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > > >I wish it was that simple. While the Debian Policy does not explicitly > >require splitting out embedded dependencies, it's a very common packaging > >best practice. > > A recommendation is still no requirement. > > >Debian does recommend upstream developers to not include 3rd party code, see: > > While there are common practices to make software packaging friendly, it is > strange when a distribution tries the explain developers how they should > develop their software. Especially as Debian does not follow common > guidelines itself.
it is by no means only Debian. Fedora has a very similar policy and I would guess most other Linux distribution too. Richard _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev