File-5.14 in rawhide - removing file-static subpackage

Bill Peck bpeck at redhat.com
Fri Mar 22 13:45:51 UTC 2013


On 03/22/2013 03:55 AM, Jan Kaluza wrote:
> Hi,
>
> upstream does not build libmagic.a anymore since File-5.14. I don't know what
> was the original reason to even package this static library, but according to
> repoquery, nobody is using it. I'm removing file-static subpackage in
Being a static library, how could repoquery tell you if anyone was using it?
> rawhide now. If you use it, please start using shared library or tell me if
> there is some compelling reason to keep this subpackage there.
>
> Regards,
> Jan Kaluza



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