On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:47:52AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 08:41:14 -0700, > Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Possible how: Apps are allowed to bundle libraries as long as the maintainer > > commits to keeping the app ported to the newest version of the bundled > > library within Fedora at all times. > > Is there going to be a tracking system for bundled libraries? This would > be useful when there are security fixes for a library so that someone could > find all of the packages that bundle that library. It could also be useful > for tracking aspects of bundling to help with decisions down the road. > Part of my rationale in the ticket for relaxing this rule is that we changed the Guidelines during the last update to require that apps bundling libraries must have a virtual Provide: that lists the library: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Requirement_if_you_bundle An example might be rsync and zsync. They would have: Provides: bundled(zlib) = 1.1.14 Note that no one has gone through the exception list yet and either opened bugs on bundled libraries or had a provenpackager add the virtual provides. If we pass relaxed guidelines, this would definitely need to be done. -Toshio
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