Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Fabian Deutsch]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I also see this as a good compromise.
We then have the ability to at least track bundling.

- fabian