On Saturday, 08 July 2017 at 17:24, Ville Skyttä wrote: [...]
If the bundled version corresponds to an upstream release to an extent that it can be called that version, and checks like the discussed one could be skipped just by looking at the version label, then it must be practically the same. So why is it bundled in the first place?
There can be many reasons: copylibs, no upstream support for building as shared library, no stable API/ABI, etc. Many of them are listed on the wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bundled_Libraries_Virtual_Provides
Regards, Dominik