[Fedora-packaging] qt-examples, libqxt-devel - Need exceptions?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 20 April 2015 at 23:47, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Just as a side-note, it's a faulty query. You need to query src.rpm
> > repositories if you want to examine BuildRequires.
> >
> > If you don't want to do that, examine dependencies on libqxt to get
> > a first overview. Those likely are the result of a build dependency:
> >
> > # repoquery --whatrequires libqxt
> >
> > Here's a repoquery for BuildRequires:
> >
> > # repoquery --archlist=src --whatrequires libqxt-devel
> > --enablerepo=fedora-source
> >
> 
> Michael, thanks for the correction.  Had enabled src in the repo file for
> fedora and was using the command in conjunction dnf.  dnf doesn't like the
> --archlist.  Now I know.
> 
> That said, qt-examples still shows up with zero hits... and it doesn't have
> "lib" in the name, so I am think that "bundled libraries" does not apply
> here.  Regarding libqxt, the recommendation from upstream I put above.

I wouldn't take the "library" part from the guidelines so literarily.
Any bundled code needs to be unbundled. Alternatively, an exception
needs to be requested so that the bundling is tracked.

Regards,
Dominik
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