[DSE-Dev] Bug#555365: python-sepolgen: Embedded code copy of python-ply

Laurent Bigonville bigon at debian.org
Fri Sep 18 15:52:20 UTC 2015


On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:03:11 +0100 ubanus at users.sf.net wrote:
 > Hello,

Hello,

 > Your binary package embeds a copy of the Python ply module. This is
 > violation of Debian Policy 4.13:
 >
 > "Debian packages should not make use of these convenience copies
 > unless the included package is explicitly intended to be used in this
 > way. If the included code is already in the Debian archive in the
 > form of a library, the Debian packaging should ensure that binary
 > packages reference the libraries already in Debian and the
 > convenience copy is not used."
 >
 > Please modify your package to use the system-wide module provided by
 > the python-ply package.

I just double checked, and it seems that the embedded version is 
slightly modified. The changes doesn't seems that bit so we could try to 
merge them upstream.

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville



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