On Tuesday, 16 December 2014 at 16:33, Matthias Clasen wrote: > I don't think you can really force a package maintainer to provide a > static library for code the is very explicitly not meant to be shared. > Just because others decided to ignore that wish and copied it anyway. > > The only outcomes I can see if this is being forced is a) us loosing > package maintainers who are fed up with this or b) upstream starting to > change internal apis every release, just to make copying this code so > difficult that it becomes impractical.
In this sad case, the solution is to request a copylib exception from the FPC covering this and other "not meant to be shared" libraries. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
