On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 15:49 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > On 02/28/2010 03:39 PM, Henrique Junior wrote: > > As Chen Lei said, the fact that JOGL needs this code may mean that it > > will be blocked forever for packaging, but I do not particularly see a > > big problem. > > For more details, please, read the log in bugzilla and give your ideas > > regarding this question. > > AFAIK we have had problems like this before with various bits of Xorg > (iirc) needing the sources of other bits to build. > > The "usual" solution for this, is to give a package a -source subpackage, > which contains the extracted sources (and installs them under > /usr/src > > So I think the best way to handle this is to package gluegen, and include > gluegen's sources as a gluegen-source subpackage, and then make jogl > BuildRequire gluegen-source. Yeah, we did this for Mesa from FC5 through F9. Certainly not ideal, but such is life. I wouldn't consider this a blocker for packaging, though I'd like to see it fixed eventually. Usually when this kind of source build dependency exists it's not a trivial thing to fix. - ajax
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