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

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:04:19AM -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > 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.
Agreed, a static library is a waste of time. What about a normal
shared library? Do you think patches to do that would be accepted?

Zbyszek