Request for upload: supercollider 3.5.3 new version

Felipe Sateler fsateler at debian.org
Sun Jun 24 17:00:41 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> 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.

For the record... 3.5.2 has not yet arrived to the repos, it is still
in the NEW queue. These extra source files are very likely to cause
delays in NEW processing.

>
> 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 agree. Note, however, that some of the "external" libs are actually required.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler



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