On 20 March 2017 at 13:25, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Please don't try to convince me. Rally forget about me. I'm probably one of
> the smallest beatles here.
> Just please sit down with him and try to convince *him* that there is no at
> all risk here.
I'm not saying there is no risk. No one has ever suggested it works perfectly
in all scenarios. I'm simply saying that there *are* valid usage scenarios
where it works just fine and thus deleting this support from Fedora is
wrong.
I fully understand your point of view however context on which you are trying to gently gently move subject is not enough/proper.
I have enough knowledge about this area because as someone working been in the past on full scale Linux distribution and coordinating most of the movements I've hit this issue two times. There is only handful people like me with enough knowledge about risk linking statically with glibc libc.a (libm.a has own issues as well).
However my knowledge about details here is maybe less than 1% of what Ulrich has in his head and if someone want to cut this knot please ask him for expertise.
Discussing this subject longer here IMO does not make to much sense.
I've quoted enough details here to give more people enough details to grind this subject in context of facts.
Will try to make some packages changes to remove as much as I can other static libraries.
This task can be scaled across many even average Fedora packagers and this email is about encourage other packagers to have closer look on own packages to make some changes. If someone will have some doubts about something related to the subject please contact me via email or on freenode IRC.
There is plenty to do here and current Fedora packaging policy is fully compliant with what I've been trying to tell about other than glibc static libraries.
What is already inked in Fedora policies needs only to be finished .. nothing more.
What I can promise here is that time to time will try to observe how things are changing in Fedora to analyse current state and write some short report.
In next few days will try to write a bit more detailed report about current state to stamp current state to observe how things are changing.
From my side EOT .. if no one have anything new to add (?)
kloczek
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