Request for upload: supercollider 3.5.3 new version

[Dan S]

2012/6/24 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
> 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.

I've pushed to git, a repacked source (3.5.3+dfsg) which removes the
folder "external_libs/boost".
I've also pushed some tweaks so that CDBS get-orig-source can
automatically repack and do this. I hope it seems reasonable.

To confirm, some of the "external" libs are required, and some of them
are actually written by a core sc developer and not published anywhere
else (except git) so aren't really external...

Thanks
Dan