On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 4:23 PM Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to bring to your attention that Fedora would benefit with > update of exiv2 [1] and protobuf [2] but these packages have lots of > dependencies and the update of the dependent packages is not trivial . > tips, ideas and opinions ? to do these soname updates > While understandably annoying, last I knew the patent issue IRT BMFF was not yet resolved for exiv2 (waiting on RH legal). As I understand it, once the issue is raised, one is required to wait for a formal decision to be made, and there no time frame for that to occur. If you are willing to strip the sources of the BMFF support until such time as a decision as to whether to allow it to be included is made that should be a way forward more quickly. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
