[Fedora-packaging] Extending the Static Library Packaging Guidelines to cover inline/template code

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 08:56:20AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 04/28/2012 04:57 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >What does the Packaging Committee think about the following?
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/759823  is the review request for libkdtree++
> >
> >That is a C++ template container implementation, which does not build a
> >shared library file to link with, but ships only C++ templates in header
> >files.
> >
> >The resulting -devel package needs to be handled in the same way than
> >a -static library package. Whenever there are important fixes in the
> >templates, dependencies may need to be rebuilt. Not limited to security
> >vulnerabilities. Any bug-fixes in the template implementation would only
> >propagate to applications when rebuilding the application packages.
> 
> +1, sounds similar to eigen2-devel and eigen3-devel
> 
+1 as well.

-Toshio
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