Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Haïkel]

2015-09-14 14:38 GMT+02:00 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<dominik at greysector.net>:
>
> This case doesn't automatically mean that we should allow bundling.
> Especially, if there are multiple consumers of the library in question.
> A recent example is kwsys, which is bundled in every project released
> by kitware. See bugs [1][2][3]. Another example is rawspeed, bundled
> in three independent applications [4][5][6].
>

Yes, and that's what we should be discussing!

> New bundling exception could be granted automatically in cases where:
> * the bundled code is not packaged in Fedora yet
> * no other Fedora package bundles it already
>

Interesting idea, unbundling on demand.

I may ask what happens for heavily modified bundled libraries


> However, the above puts the burden of unbundling on the second packager
> who attempts to package something that bundles the same code.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251198
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251281
> [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251289
> [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248730
> [5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248756
> [6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=972604
>
> Regards,
> Dominik

In that aspect, that's the reason I want to encourage packages to work
within SIGs to lessen the burden.

H.