Comment 45 for bug 300935

To me it sounds like gcolor2 should just ship it's own copy in a file called /usr/share/gcolor2/predefined_colors.txt or similar? The gcolor2 package hasn't been modified in ubuntu since 2006 and 0.4 is still the latest upstream release, so I think you should just prepare a debdiff that drops a patch in the debian/patches for this ubuntu package (and the CC it to debian maybe).

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