what to do when upstream package is shipped with MB of dependencies ?

I'm in a situation where upstream tarball is not very nice; e.g. it's shipped with 3MB of dependencies, most of which are already packaged. I suppose a patch has no meaning here, since it consists in removing the dependencies from the tarball. Another patch consists in correcting the makefile to

Re: what to do when upstream package is shipped with MB of dependencies?

Jérémy Lal wrote: I'm in a situation where upstream tarball is not very nice; e.g. it's shipped with 3MB of dependencies, most of which are already packaged. I suppose a patch has no meaning here, since it consists in removing the dependencies from the tarball. Another patch consists in

Re: what to do when upstream package is shipped with MB of dependencies ?

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Jérémy Lal wrote: I'm in a situation where upstream tarball is not very nice; e.g. it's shipped with 3MB of dependencies, most of which are already packaged. I suppose a patch has no meaning here, since it consists in removing the dependencies from the tarball. Another