How to handle upstreams with bundled libs (Was Re: December 2010 Fedora Election Plan)

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 10/29/2010 10:06 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 07:50:15PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>>
>> 1) We have the
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SourceURL#When_Upstream_uses_Prohibited_Code
>> rules in the Packaging Guidelines for a reason. A party interested in
>> seeing a package in Fedora proper could work towards stripping out the
>> bundling requirement in the source tarball, then package that up as
>> described above. Naturally, any changes made to accomplish this should
>> be submitted back upstream in order to improve the product for everyone.
>>
> Just informational:
> The Guidelines you're quoting deal with modifying source due to things we're
> not allowed legally to ship and would still apply to anything on
> repos.fp.o.
> 
> You probably want:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
> 

No, I was pointing at that intentionally. I was suggesting that in the
cases where it's possible for us to unbundle the libraries ourselves
when upstream ships them that we should follow the "When Upstream uses
prohibited code" guidelines to create an acceptable tarball.


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