* Eriberto Mota [Wed Nov 30, 2016 at 09:33:44AM -0200]:
> 2015-08-09 20:58 GMT-03:00 Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com>:

> > Although not a must in Debian policy, the preference is to not use embedded
> > copies of libraries.  sleuthkit-4.1.3/framework/modules/c_LibExifModule has
> > an embedded copy of libexif-0.6.20 that is used during package build.  It
> > would be better to use the system libexif.

> I packaged the 4.3.1 version now. I did some checks and I saw that the
> upstream does not use this library.

> 1. Via grep, I can not see a call for the library in main program. I
> think that the upstream uses the directory to generate, manually,
> files for MS Windows.

> 2. Removing the directory framework/modules/c_LibExifModule, the
> package builds fine. The config.log and sleuthkit_4.3.1-1_amd64.build
> don't show any call to libexif.

> I thing this bug can be closed. What is your oppinion?

Was there any agreement how to handle this?

FYI: I've forwarded this to upstream (especially since
c_LibExifModule is quite outdated), it's tracked at
https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/1807

regards
-mika-

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