On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 03:06:55PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: > I am trying to package forked-daapd and it depends on libevent 1.4.13. > When asking forked-daapd's maintainer about the compatibility with > libevent2, I've got this into reply: > > libevent2 is not and will not be supported; you need to use > libevent 1.4.x. > > Which I guess means either I'd have to package libevent1 for Fedora > (which seems to be PITA ... files have same names etc.), or patch > forked-daapd to use libevent2 and maintain the patch. > > What's so horrible about libevent2 that the upstream author won't > support it? Is it that difficult to make and maintain the patch for > libevent2 compatiblity? > > Non-building experiemntal draft of the package is at > http://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/tmp/forked-daapd-0.14-0.fc15.src.rpm (you > need also avl package from -testing to build it). > > Any ideas? Help upstream by converting forked-daapd to use libevent2. I suspect one of two things will happen: - either you'll do this and your patches will be accepted upstream - or you'll quickly discover what's so horrible about libevent2 (:-) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
