[Fedora-packaging] #15 relaxing guidelines wrt. bundling

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:47:52AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 08:41:14 -0700,
>   Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Possible how: Apps are allowed to bundle libraries as long as the maintainer
> > commits to keeping the app ported to the newest version of the bundled
> > library within Fedora at all times.
> 
> Is there going to be a tracking system for bundled libraries? This would
> be useful when there are security fixes for a library so that someone could
> find all of the packages that bundle that library. It could also be useful
> for tracking aspects of bundling to help with decisions down the road.
>
Part of my rationale in the ticket for relaxing this rule is that we
changed the Guidelines during the last update to require that apps bundling
libraries must have a virtual Provide: that lists the library:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Requirement_if_you_bundle

An example might be rsync and zsync.  They would have:
  Provides: bundled(zlib) = 1.1.14

Note that no one has gone through the exception list yet and either opened
bugs on bundled libraries or had a provenpackager add the virtual provides.
If we pass relaxed guidelines, this would definitely need to be done.

-Toshio
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