[josm-dev] JCS as optional dependency

[Richard]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 03:30:02PM +0200, Dirk Stöcker wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> 
> >I wish it was that simple. While the Debian Policy does not explicitly
> >require splitting out embedded dependencies, it's a very common packaging
> >best practice.
> 
> A recommendation is still no requirement.
> 
> >Debian does recommend upstream developers to not include 3rd party code, see:
> 
> While there are common practices to make software packaging friendly, it is
> strange when a distribution tries the explain developers how they should
> develop their software. Especially as Debian does not follow common
> guidelines itself.

it is by no means only Debian. Fedora has a very similar policy and I would 
guess most other Linux distribution too.

Richard