[Fedora-packaging] Update on packages violating the Static Library guidelines

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:41:19 +0100, Ralf wrote:

> >>> * Early-warning system =>    "binutils" was closed WONTFIX:
> >>>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/556040
> >>>     I may need some backup in case the reopened ticket will be ignored.
> >>
> >> Amazing how responsive some maintainers can be if they want to close
> >> something as WONTFIX or NOTABUG together with a slap into the face.
> >>
> >> "They don't make any sense for binutils" is all what Jakub Jelinek
> >> added about the current Fedora Packaging Guidelines.
> 
> If there is something which doesn't make sense, then it's their rationale:
> 
> * They already ships shared libs.

News in the bz ticket.

Btw, only binutils itself is linked shared with the two troublesome libs.

Here's the list of packages in F-12 that "BuildRequires: binutils-devel" with
an unknown purpose:

$ repoquery --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo='*source*' --srpm --whatrequires binutils-devel --qf "%{name}"|sort|uniq
alleyoop
avarice
CodeAnalyst-gui
eclipse-oprofile
gcl
kdesdk
kernel
ksplice
latrace
libdwarf
lush
mutrace
oprofile
pfmon
sblim-wbemcli
stapitrace
sysprof