On Monday, August 28, 2017 1:59:42 AM CEST Kevin Kofler wrote: > Björn Persson wrote: > > > To me it looks like an attempt to recruit packagers to help promoting > > the change _upstream_. > > > There is no upstream for kdelibs3. It is a compatibility package, which is > 2 major (first digit!) versions behind what upstream actually develops. We > are mostly only backporting security fixes and compilation fixes, so that > legacy applications keep running. > > > > Look at what packagers are actually asked to do: > > > > > >> Propose patches to convert to libidn2, and notify upstream about it. > > > > > > Note well the words "propose", "notify" and "upstream". How is that > > equivalent to blindly enforcing the change without assessing the impact? > > > It is when we are talking about a package like kdelibs3. OK. That is a fair reason to relink kdelibs3 against libidn2 without notifying upstream. But it does not mean that we should enforce such approach for the rest of Fedora packages... Kamil > Kevin Kofler _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
