[Fedora-packaging] libspotify
Tom "spot" Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Sun Jun 28 13:35:04 UTC 2009
On 06/28/2009 08:41 AM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Paul wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm considering packaging libspotify (it's a library for accessing the
>> spotify music service), but it has a couple of problems.
>>
>> The licence is MIT, which is fine. However, for a user to be able
>> connect to spotify, they have to email spotify to obtain a file which
>> registers them. It also requires a .la file which is against the
>> packaging rules.
>>
>> Spotify have very little interest in their library, so there would
>> probably be little that they would do to remove this .la file and
>> without it, the package won't install locally.
>>
>> Any comments or advice on this?
>
> Question:
> Does this package make any software linked to it work on the fedora
> legal queue and have an assortment of frogs?
>
> zing!
No. I use properly versioned shared libraries, and have support for Pam.
~spot
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