forked library

[Jon Ciesla]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Nikos Roussos
<comzeradd at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> **
> Hi,
>
> I maintain IDJC [1], which depends on libshout. The latest version though
> depends on libshout-idjc a fork of the original library, since the idjc
> upstream developer wanted some extra functionality on libshout and didn't
> want to wait for libshout upstream to adopt his changes.
>
> I've read the relevant documentation [2] but I'm not sure what's the best
> way to proceed. The good thing that he doesn't bundle his version of
> libshout, but instead he has made it a separate release [3], which could
> also be packaged for Fedora. But a fork is a fork.
>
> Should I just make a request for exception and package the forked library
> or should the package be orphaned?
>
> I don't think you need a bundling exception if there's no bundling.  We
can have both the fork and the original in the distro, I believe.

-J


> [1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/idjc
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
> [3] http://sourceforge.net/projects/idjc/files/
>
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