libev - bundling - "expected"

[Tim St. Clair]

Greetings folks -

It appears that I've run into a conundrum: libev upstream developer(s) actually encourage (re)bundling of libev, see - 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049554

I was wondering if there was president for how to handle *this.  In groking the code, it's not run-time configurable, but alas it's a dependency on one of my packages.

Thoughts?
Tim

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 13:09 -0500, Tim St Clair wrote:
> Greetings folks -
>
> It appears that I've run into a conundrum: libev upstream developer(s) actually encourage (re)bundling of libev, see - 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049554
>
> I was wondering if there was president for how to handle *this.  In
> groking the code, it's not run-time configurable, but alas it's a
> dependency on one of my packages.

The bundling policy has an exception for 'copylibs', which *may* apply
here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Copylibs

this is the clause you would need to check to see if your case matches
it.

[Tim St. Clair]

Thanks Adam, that was the reference I was looking for.

Cheers,
Tim

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Williamson" 
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 1:39:41 PM
> Subject: Re: libev - bundling - "expected"
>
> On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 13:09 -0500, Tim St Clair wrote:
> > Greetings folks -
> >
> > It appears that I've run into a conundrum: libev upstream developer(s)
> > actually encourage (re)bundling of libev, see -
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049554
> >
> > I was wondering if there was president for how to handle *this.  In
> > groking the code, it's not run-time configurable, but alas it's a
> > dependency on one of my packages.
>
> The bundling policy has an exception for 'copylibs', which *may* apply
> here:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Copylibs
>
> this is the clause you would need to check to see if your case matches
> it.
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