On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 20:16 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:07:34PM +0200, Nikos Roussos wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I maintain IDJC [1], which depends on libshout. The latest version > > though depends on libshout-idjc a fork of the original library, since > > the idjc upstream developer wanted some extra functionality on libshout > > and didn't want to wait for libshout upstream to adopt his changes. > > > > I've read the relevant documentation [2] but I'm not sure what's the > > best way to proceed. The good thing that he doesn't bundle his version > > of libshout, but instead he has made it a separate release [3], which > > could also be packaged for Fedora. But a fork is a fork. > > > > Should I just make a request for exception and package the forked > > library or should the package be orphaned? > > > > [1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/idjc > > [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries > > [3] http://sourceforge.net/projects/idjc/files/ > > How likely is it that the changes would go back into libshout? Is the > maintainer of IDJC pushing them? Is the libshout maintainer > interested in them? After discussing it with the developer it seems that some of his changes include support for non-free codecs (eg. AAC). So the best solution I can think of is to orphan the package and then move it along with libshout-idjc to RPMFusion. -- Nikos Roussos comzeradd @ freenode.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
