On May 15, 10:26 am, John H Palmieri <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday, May 14, 2012 11:43:09 PM UTC-7, Keshav Kini wrote:
>
> > William Stein writes:
> > > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:31 AM, William Stein wrote:
> > >> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
> > >>> I disagee when it comes to removing parts of a spkg.  Several packages
> > >>> include only partial sources.  They contain the upstream tree but with
> > >>> some files/directories (which Sage doesn't need) removed.  I think
> > this
> > >>> is fine and should be allowed.
>
> > >> Indeed.  Many spkg's are full of stuff we absolutely don't want to
>
> > > s/spkg/upstream sources     (not spkg's!)
>
> > >> ship.  They have windows binaries in them, java binaries, big pdf's,
> > >> and other random stuff that wastes space and makes some people
> > >> nervous.
>
> > OK, that's reasonable. I withdraw my objection, though it would still be
> > nice if we had a better history of what is or was in the src/
> > directories of SPKGs, if it is no longer considered possible to
> > determine this simply from the package version minus the patch number.
>
> Any changes like this are supposed to be documented in SPKG.txt, right? If
> not, the spkg needs work.

You are correct, and preferably there should be a script included
which does all this removal.

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