Request permission to break always use system libs rule for asc-2.0

[Christopher Aillon]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm currently working on upgrading asc (Advanced Strategic Command) to 
> 2.0.1.0 When packaging asc-1.16.4.0, I also packaged SDLmm-0.1.8 and 
> paragui-1.0.4.
> 
> While packaging SDLmm I had to backport several fixes from a copy 
> included in asc to the package, as SDLmm is very much dead upstream.
> 
> With 1.16.4.0, paragui was not included so the packaging of it was 
> needed, and I packaged the then already old version 1.0.4, as that is 
> what asc 1.16.4.0 wanted.
> 
> Now with asc-2.0 there are yet again bugfixes to the included 
> SDLmm-0.1.8, now I can port these to the external SDLmm package, and 
> patch asc to use the external SDLmm. But since SDLmm upstream has been 
> dead for a long time, and asc is the only user of SDLmm, this feels 
> rather silly. So I would like to declare SDLmm dead for current devel 
> (F-9 and later) and just use the included copy.
> 
> asc-2.0 now uses paragui-1.1.8, which is the latest release from 2004 
> (again very dead upstream, website is down, etc.) and again has it 
> heavily patched. Unfortunately some idiot ran indent on there copy, so 
> doing a diff results in 30000 changed lines. I could go through these 
> manually and port any fixes to the official paragui, and patch asc to 
> use the system version. But again asc is the only user, so doing this 
> feels really silly (going through a 30000 lines diff is no fun). So I 
> would like to declare paragui dead for current devel (F-9 and later) 
> also, and just use the included copy.
> 
> Are there any objections against this?
> 

If upstream is dead, we should call it dead.  Trying to port patches 
sort of makes us upstream and if we don't have anyone willing to be 
upstream, is not an option.  Your plan seems OK to me.