----- Original Message ----- > Adam Jackson wrote: > > Bundling is _not_ intrinsically poor practice. Firefox is a good > > example of this, > > Firefox is exactly an example of how NOT to do things, and I'm fed up of it > getting a blanket exception to our packaging guidelines. And now the "fix" > is to simply remove the guideline for all packages. :-( > > I haven't checked recently, but last I checked, Debian unbundled a lot more > libraries from Firefox than we did, even where upstream explicitly "did not > allow" it. (They opted to not use the trademark anyway, so they are only > bound by the Free Software license, that of course allows unbundling > whatever they want.) One example is libpng, where Firefox requires the non- > upstream APNG patch. Debian simply ripped out APNG support from Iceweasel to > build it against the system libpng. (Though in this case, IMHO, the best fix > would be to simply apply the APNG patch to the system libpng and ignore the > libpng upstream's opinion. Then all browsers could benefit from APNG > support. Some distros do that, too.) Because adding downstream features to a system library really is the way to keep ABI (not). We wouldn't even be able to use Ubuntu binaries in Fedora. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
