libev - bundling - "expected"

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Jan 8 19:39:41 UTC 2014


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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