On Friday, 10 March 2017 at 11:41, Marek Skalický wrote: > Hi, > packaging guidelines says that bundling should be avoided if upstream > supports it (build system has this option). > > I was dealing with situation with icu. Fedora version differs from > bundled versions in packages. > Because of this for mozjs45 some tests are failing, so I had to disable > them. For mongodb it is the same. Also upstream say that they was > thinking about it and decided to use bundling [1], because with > different icu versions, ordering may differ, so users can get > inconsistent results.
That's unfortunate. Have they tried talking to ICU upstream to merge their (mozjs and mongodb) changes? > What should be preferred: use system library, avoid bundling (with all > its benefits) and provide same set of languages as a rest of system > > OR provide users the same behavior as they would expect from upstream > binaries ? I'd say the former. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bundled_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 To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
