Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Wed Sep 30 16:28:06 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-09-30 at 08:13 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

The only way to ever make declaration of bundling reliable is to
automate it somehow.


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