----- Original Message -----
Hi Bastien,
On 12/12/2014 04:25 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>> Meeting summary
>>> ---------------
>>> * Roll Call (geppetto, 17:01:37)
>>>
>>> * #476 Requesting copylib exemption for libgnome-volume-control
>>> (geppetto, 17:06:19)
>>> * ACTION: General agreement that it should be made at least a static
>>> lib. … hopefully a shared lib. eventually. (geppetto, 17:20:11)
>>>
>> Per the FPC decision that libgnome-volume-control is not an acceptable
>> copylib, and therefore it has to be packaged as a static lib and
>> packages using it modified to use it, some questions:
>>
>> 1. who should be performing the modification?
>> 2. presumably reviews of new packages depending on this would be blocked
>> until such a static lib is available?
>> 3. presumably whereas legacy packages that have already gone in are
>> fine, we won't want to yank them
>
> That won't happen.
>
Presumably you're refering to #3 here? Or you're saying there won't be a
libgnome-volume-control static lib?
The whole goal of using a git submodule is so that we don't offer to 3rd-parties
a library, and so that we can change the API without any problems. Using a static
library offers all the disadvantages and none of the advantages of using a git submodule.
So it won't be changed upstream, or downstream.
I'm guessing the FPC hasn't found out about the libgd git-submodule yet...