New Branch for building Mame and Mess >= 0.144

[Jordi Mallach]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 03:03:21PM +0100, Cesare Falco wrote:
> I tend to agree with Arbee, however. No matter the amount of code duplication
> we must deal with. The proper way to build a package is to build it from the
> upstream source IMO.

Upstreams aren't right just because they are upstreams.

It's common for some of them to distribute copies of common libraries like
libpng, libjpeg, etc. just because they are the versions they tested their
apps against. They might think it's a great idea, but it's not. Debian
(and Fedora) forbids this duplication of code for good reason.

MAME and MESS share such a big amount of code that it's not even fun to
duplicate it, and I don't have a strong opinion due to this, although I
lean towards two sources, but just to avoid annoying them. I think it's a
waste of space and potential security team resources.

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