Comment 1 for bug 1188926

coldtobi <email address hidden> writes:
> As embedded code copies of libraries makes the live for distributions
> harder. The Debian Policy Manual for examples states:
>
> "Having multiple copies of the same code in Debian is inefficient, often
> creates either static linking or shared library conflicts, and, most
> importantly, increases the difficulty of handling security
> vulnerabilities in the duplicated code. " [1]
>
> This problem causes an lintian-error [2] and therefore -- as severity is
> serious -- it is a possible show-stopper to package drizzle for Debian
> -- unless there are some good reasons why this copy is needed. (If,
> please state them here ...) In this case it might be justified to
> override this linitian error.
>
> [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/footnotes.html#f30
>
> [2] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/embedded-library.html
>
> Many thanks for your help from the drizzle's package maintainer @ Debian
> :-)

I'll look into it, it probably isn't hard to link against the debian one
instead.

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Stewart Smith