Hi, Unvendoring libraries that are already in Debian seems like the pragmatic approach to lower code duplication and be closer to better packaging pratices.
#1073005 asks for the vendoring back of an unvendored library, arguing that this particular library is unmaintained upstream, implying that the vendored fork is better maintained. My view on this is that if the vendored fork is better maintained, the vendored fork should become the upstream of the Debian package. I've read through https://bugs.debian.org/907051 (policy bug: Say much more about vendoring of libraries) and do feel I understand the rules and the philosophy behind those rules. On the other side I do not want to make it harder for downstream distributions packagers to do their work for no good reason. Seeking additional advice here. Thanks, Alex
