Michael, I'm on the defensive here because I've poured a huge amount of work == time into getting OCaml packages into Fedora, to the stage where we are almost now competitive with Debian. So I get defensive about this. I got an email saying that a package was "violating the Static Packaging Guidelines", and there's another email in this thread (from kanarip, not you) saying "such exceptions to the general packaging guidelines should not be allowed". The issue I'm talking about is ... On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 05:58:17PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > With "this" == what? ... Is separating out static code into -static packages (a) useful (b) possible (c) something that should be applied to code other than unsafe compiled languages like C/C++? (a) Useful: Yes for making it possible to do security updates quickly. (b) Possible: For a lot of code. But not for inlined code. (c) Applied to non-C/C++: In the best of all worlds yes, but in reality this has not been a problem for OCaml code. > I've asked about exceptions to the static library packaging guidelines. > This has lead to helpful replies, such as those about Tcl/Tk stub libs. > The bz tickets filed about those packages have been closed automatically. Indeed, and I fully support your aims of making the QA of packages as automatic as possible, and even of automatically opening bugs. If it seems like I didn't, then that wasn't intended and I'm sorry about that. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
