Request for upload: supercollider 3.5.3 new version

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 12-06-24 at 11:05am, Dan S wrote:
> SuperCollider 3.5.3 is now out. This comes very soon after we got
> 3.5.2 into the debian repo, so no rush - but this release fixes a
> couple of bugs and upstreams most of our patches (hooray). The diff
> against 3.5.2 is fairly simple so I don't foresee controversy. If
> anyone feels like pushing this one then please feel free.

I find it very disturbing that source ships with more than 3000 files 
belonging to external projects.

The amount alone is IMO a good reason to repackage source.

Another reason is the difficulty tracking copyright/licensing: This is 
IMO not acceptable:

> Files: external_libraries/boost/*
> Copyright: Various authors
> License: BSL-1.0

A third reason is that it seems likely to miss a Boost dependency which 
causes the shipped copy to be used, which is a security burden if Boost 
is found to need patching in the future.

I strongly recommend to strip that gigantic pile of external code.


I now revived the copyright-check routine but have not updated 
debian/copyright_hints as it is a big job to do right due to all that 
unneeded external code.  Also, it seems a copyright check was done 
earlier without updating the hints file - feels silly to do duplicated 
work.


 - Jonas

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