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 subset of the gdal >> package.
>> So, before proceeding with this work I'd like to know how to handle a >> situation like this. Under what conditions (if any) is bundling actually OK? > > Personally, I don't think it is ever acceptable. 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. OTOH, it will be available as a flatpak package (sandboxed, FWIW) which should satisfy most users. But the embedded communities would really need a pure Debian package. I also note that this was the position in Fedora (some years ago I actually felt that Debian was more flexible then Fedora on this). Fedora today basically allows bundling. Fedora is not Debian, though. Cheers! --alec [1] https://opencpn.org/OpenCPN/info/newspgI.html
