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

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sun Oct 31 15:47:52 UTC 2010


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.


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