Re: Q: Debian position on bundled libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Alec Leamas
On 23/08/18 12:01, Paul Wise wrote: Hi, thanks for replies! > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: > >> It's not that I don't understand your reasoning. Still, if this is the >> conclusion, it's kind of sad because it's means that a price-awarded [1] >> application won't be packag

Re: Q: Debian position on bundled libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: > It's not that I don't understand your reasoning. Still, if this is the > conclusion, it's kind of sad because it's means that a price-awarded [1] > application won't be packaged in Debian. Upstream is very clear on this. Please note that I onl

Re: Q: Debian position on bundled libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Alec Leamas
On 23/08/18 09:26, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: > >> Here is some libraries to unbundle; this could certainly could be done, >> However, the core issue is a few libraries which cannot realistically be >> unbundled. One example is mygdal, a heavily patched

Re: Q: Debian position on bundled libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Le jeudi 23 août 2018 à 09:31:09+0200, Alec Leamas a écrit : > On 23/08/18 08:34, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > Le jeudi 23 août 2018 à 06:59:45+0200, Alec Leamas a écrit : > >> [may I keep bundled libraries?] > > Thanks for reply! > > > I'd say that as soon as there's no other way of having yo

Re: Q: Debian position on bundled libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Alec Leamas
On 23/08/18 08:34, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > Le jeudi 23 août 2018 à 06:59:45+0200, Alec Leamas a écrit : >> [may I keep bundled libraries?] Thanks for reply! > I'd say that as soon as there's no other way of having your package work > (right, there's always another way, but my guess is that

Re: Q: Debian position on bundled libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: > Here is some libraries to unbundle; this could certainly could be done, > However, the core issue is a few libraries which cannot realistically be > unbundled. One example is mygdal, a heavily patched subset of the gdal > package. gdal has ha

Re: Q: Debian position on bundled libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:34 PM, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > Per Debian's Policy section 4.13[1], the embedding of a code from an > other software packages should be avoided, unless the included package is > explicitly intended to work this way. In addition: https://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCod

Re: Q: Debian position on bundled libraries

2018-08-22 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Le jeudi 23 août 2018 à 06:59:45+0200, Alec Leamas a écrit : > [may I keep bundled libraries?] Hi Alec, Please note that I'm a little new to the Policy and these packaging questions, so my thoughts probably require to be confirmed by a more experimented person. Per Debian's Policy section 4.13[1

Q: Debian position on bundled libraries

2018-08-22 Thread Alec Leamas
Dear list, Still investigating packaging opencpn[1]. In this context I have looked into the bundling [2]. Here is some libraries to unbundle; this could certainly could be done, However, the core issue is a few libraries which cannot realistically be unbundled. One example is mygdal, a heavily pa