On 6 March 2010 09:12, micah <micaho@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In working on the Debian package, I found that the ffi ruby library
> embeds an entire code-copy of the upstream libffi C library. Embedding
> code is a bug in Debian if there is already an available library and
> headers that can be depended on and used instead... so I have taken
> the steps to repack the tarball to remove this embedded code-copy in
> the Debian package.
>
> However, I am curious to know if this is just a convenience copy, or
> if it has any modifications that I should be aware of?

It should be a pristine copy of 3.0.9, and yes, it is just there for
convenience when building on older linux, or other systems (e.g.
MacOS) that have broken libffi builds.