[Fedora-packaging] Summary/Minutes from today's FPC Meeting (2014-12-11 17:00 - 18:25 UTC)

[Bastien Nocera]

----- Original Message -----
> Dear developers,
> 
> On 12/12/2014 01:27 AM, James Antill wrote:
> > ======================
> > #fedora-meeting-1: fpc
> > ======================
> > 
> > 
> > Meeting started by geppetto at 17:01:37 UTC. The full logs are available
> > at
> > http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2014-12-11/fpc.2014-12-11-17.01.log.html
> > .
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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.

Cheers