[Python-modules-team] Bug#555369: Bug#555369: python-matplotlib: Embedded code copy of python-pyparsing

Sandro Tosi morph at debian.org
Mon Nov 9 12:33:42 UTC 2009


forcemerge 531024 555369
thanks

Thanks for the report, but it was already filed. (bounced to the bug,
missing from previous email because of a typo)

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 13:03,  <ubanus at users.sf.net> wrote:
> Package: python-matplotlib
> Version: 0.99.1.1-1
> Severity: normal
> Usertags: embedded-code-copy
>
> Hello,
>
> Your binary package embeds a copy of the Python pyparsing 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-pyparsing package.
>
>
>
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