Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Wed Sep 30 13:30:27 UTC 2015


On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 08:35:41AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> * All packages not in the critical path whose upstreams allow them to
> be build against system libraries '''must''' be built against system
> libraries.
> * All packages not in the critical path whose upstreams have no
> mechanism to build against system libraries '''must''' be contacted
> publicly about a path to supporting system libraries. If upstream
> refuses, this must be recorded in a link included in the spec file.
> * All packages not in non-critical path whose upstreams have no
> mechanism to build against system libraries '''may''' opt to carry
> bundled libraries, but if they do, they '''must''' include {{{Provides:
> bundled(<libname>) = <version>}}} in their RPM spec file.

Very reasonable imho.

Zbyszek


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