On Monday, August 28, 2017 1:59:42 AM CEST Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Björn Persson wrote:
> 
> > To me it looks like an attempt to recruit packagers to help promoting
> > the change _upstream_.
> 
> 
> There is no upstream for kdelibs3. It is a compatibility package, which is
> 2 major (first digit!) versions behind what upstream actually develops. We
> are mostly only backporting security fixes and compilation fixes, so that
> legacy applications keep running.
> 
> 
> > Look at what packagers are actually asked to do:
> > 
> > 
> >> Propose patches to convert to libidn2, and notify upstream about it.
> > 
> > 
> > Note well the words "propose", "notify" and "upstream". How is that
> > equivalent to blindly enforcing the change without assessing the impact?
> 
> 
> It is when we are talking about a package like kdelibs3.

OK.  That is a fair reason to relink kdelibs3 against libidn2 without 
notifying upstream.  But it does not mean that we should enforce such
approach for the rest of Fedora packages...

Kamil

>         Kevin Kofler
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