[Bug 961405] Review Request: mingw-openjpeg - MinGW Windows OpenJPEG library

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Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961405

--- Comment #6 from Erik van Pienbroek <erik-fedora at vanpienbroek.nl> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > - static libraries: from a quick glance at the buildsystem files I didn't
> > figure out how to enable the compilation of static libraries with cmake (I'm
> > not overly familiar with cmake I should note)
> 
> Me neither, unfortunately.

It is up to the maintainer in question to decide whether to ship static
libraries or not. If the build system creates them automatically or users want
it then it would make sense to ship them, otherwise just bundle the shared
libraries only. It doesn't really matter

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > - tools: I'm not sure what the general rule is, many other mingw packages
> > provide *.exe files (though usually in the main package). My idea was: keep
> > everything that some users may find usefull for whatever reason, but put
> > them in a separate package.
> 
> I think they used to be forbidden. There's no guidance anymore, now, that I
> know of. So in my opinion we should use common sense. If you can think of a
> use of those, then fine, package them. Right now I don't see one.

Almost all Fedora MinGW packages ship their executables in the main package.
Right now we've got the following binary mingw RPMs which use the -tools
suffix:

mingw32-gvnc-tools-0.5.2-1.fc19.noarch
mingw32-qt-tools-4.8.4-3.fc20.noarch
mingw64-gvnc-tools-0.5.2-1.fc19.noarch
mingw64-qt-tools-4.8.4-3.fc20.noarch

So, for consistency with the majority of the mingw packages I would recommend
to bundle executables in the main package. However, I'm open to other
suggestions as well. Perhaps it would make sense to bring up this subject to
the mailing list so we can come up with a more generic packaging guideline on
what to do with shipping executables.

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