[Bug 475065] Review Request: givaro - C++ library for arithmetic and algebraic computations

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Jussi Lehtola <jussi.lehtola@xxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #25 from Jussi Lehtola <jussi.lehtola@xxxxxx>  2009-09-08 05:21:23 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #24)
> Since you've already done a good job bringing this package in shape, there
> isn't much left to do. If nobody else wants to do the re-review, I can do it
> later today.
> However, I'm not quite happy with the call of exit() in a shared library. This
> is simply bad style and should be avoided by all means. I'm not sure about
> Fedora's policy about this, though. 
> Here is a patch that replaces the call of exit() by throwing an exception: 
> http://mgieseki.fedorapeople.org/givaro/givaro-exit.patch  

Calling exit() is not forbidden (in fact it is quite common in scientific
packages), so you can omit the rpmlint warning. You should not apply any
patches that make functional changes, since that will break compatibility with
upstream. You can ask upstream to make the change, though...

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