On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 16:59 +0200, drago01 wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Warren Togami <warren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Josh Boyer wrote: > >> > >> I'd like to formally request that this curl change be reverted: > >> > >> * Mon Aug 11 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> 7.18.2-4 > >> - make miniature library for libcurl.so.3 > >> > >> Due to the fact that it was simply made to accommodate proprietary > >> software, as described in this blog entry: > >> > >> http://wtogami.livejournal.com/27778.html > >> > >> There are at least a dozen other proprietary applications that could > >> "benefit" from making similar changes to other packages, and we > >> certainly wouldn't make those changes for them. Flash should be no > >> different. > >> > >> josh > >> > > > > You are proposing removing a zero maintenance 2496 byte file that would > > permanently break Flash 10 forever in Fedora. > > > > They are not violating any licenses like NVidia, and we seriously are not > > going out of our way to allow it to work. Extremist views are rarely the > > most productive. > > exactly the change does not break anything and does not make the > package harder to maintain. > the only thing it does is make life easier for our user @ ~0 cost.... We've just had a very long IRC conversation on this that I don't care to rehash entirely, so I'll summarize: If there are legitimate reasons to have the older soname library in Fedora, it should be done properly as a compat-curl package. That is what I am going to press for in the FESCo meeting tomorrow. (There is also the possibility to have compat-curl done as a subpackage of curl. That might be acceptable but we'll see how the discussion goes tomorrow.) josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
