Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Tomas Mraz]

On St, 2015-09-30 at 16:25 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> Am 30.09.2015 um 16:13 schrieb Orion Poplawski:
> > On 09/30/2015 07:45 AM, Fabian Deutsch wrote:
> >> Yes, I also see this as a good compromise.
> >> We then have the ability to at least track bundling.
> >>
> > I'd just like to point out that we have always had the requirement for
> > package that bundled libraries to carry the "Provides: bundled(libname)"
> > metadata.  What's new here is not needing to go through the FPC to get
> > an exception.  Which perhaps leads to people not declaring their
> > packages bundled libraries.
> 
> how do you come to that conclusion?
> 
> people not declaring their bundles and not care about policies did the 
> same before: not declare it and not ask for exceptions - there is a 
> logical flow in "now that i don't need to ask FPC i don't declare it"
> 
> the opposite is more likely: people trying to avoid the FPC burden now 
> can declare it without fearing somebody takes notice and points out a 
> violation

I think that's exactly what was Orion trying to say above although the
wording could be interpreted both ways.

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Tomas Mraz
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