https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265685 --- Comment #17 from Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> --- (In reply to Ranjan Maitra from comment #16) > (In reply to Ralf Corsepius from comment #15) > > Any update? > > > > Open issues with *-2: > > * [MUSTFIX] Not building against external sylpheed > > - Missing "BuildRequires: sylpheed-devel" > > - Pass --with-libsylph=sylpheed instead of --with-libsylph=builtin > > to %configure > > Why is this a MUSTFIX? To put it bluntly: because bundling is harmful, stupid and dumb. Less bluntly: bundling renders packages unmaintainable, vulnerable and causes bloat. > Building against sylpheed will mean requiring the > package for installation. It reduces the package size from 91k to 46k which > is not much, however, requiring sylpheed for someone who does not intend to > use sylpheed for this purpose would increase his/her pulled-in RPM size by > 7.8M (which is what sylpheed's RPM is). Size-wise bundling causes bloat because each statically linked packages re-adds the same libraries over and over again. What causes the bloat in case of sylpheed is the libs* not having been split out into a separate package and them being packaged together with docs and binaries. If this is of real concern to you, you can consider to file an RFE and request a split out of the libs. > > * [MUSTFIX] no *-devel subpackage > > Will have to fix this: first have to find how to do this. Coarse (Incomplete) outline: <snip> % package devel Summary: Development files for sylfilter Requires: sylfilter%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release} %description devel Development files for sylfilter [...] %files %doc README %license COPYING %{_bindir}/sylfilter %{_libdir}/libsylfilter.so.* %files devel %{_libdir}/libsylfilter.so %{_includedir}/sylfilter </snip> I hope tot be able have a look into *-3, tomorrow. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are always notified about changes to this product and component _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review