Bug#219595: More information on building 'standalone' libffi

Hi Nathanael, Could you reply to both parts of this message? Thanks. PART I == Nathanael Nerode wrote: > There is really nothing wrong with sharing install-sh & friends. Lots > of packages do it. This is not true. The GNU GPL version 2, section 2 says: --- BEGIN--- 2. You may modify your co

Bug#219595: This is not a real problem.

There are no "deep source dependencies". There is really nothing wrong with sharing install-sh & friends. Lots of packages do it. You can delete all the directories except libffi (and possibly config), and delete all the files at the top level and 'config' which are under the GPL, and you can s