Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> I maintain LibRaw, which is only a static library -- upstream has
> rejected the idea of maintaining dynamic libs since they would have to
> take care of ABI compatibility across releases.
>
> I wanted to know if there are any other only-static libraries out
> there and
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:38:50PM +, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> I'd say do try a rebuild of affected packages yourself, and notify the
> maintainers only in case there is a breakage and coordinate on what to do
> (otherwise they'd get an unpleasant FTBFS report).
>
That was helpful, th
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:12:18 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Thanks to http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/RepoQuery
>
> If you need to figure out which srpms have a buildrequirement on a
> particular pkgname run:
> repoquery --archlist=src --repoid=some_repo_with_srpms \
> -q --whatrequires pkgname
>
Aha!
Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> Incidentally, does anyone know how to keep track of which package lists
> something as a *build* requirement? repoquery has --whatrequires and
> --tree-whatrequires, and has an --srpm option that seems promising, but
> does not seem to do the trick.
Thanks to http:
Hi Siddhesh,
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:56:47 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> I wanted to know if there are any other only-static libraries out there
> and how they maintainers manage releases. I had packaged this to build
> Shotwell 0.6.x but I understand there are a couple of other apps too
> th
Hi,
I maintain LibRaw, which is only a static library -- upstream has
rejected the idea of maintaining dynamic libs since they would have to
take care of ABI compatibility across releases.
I wanted to know if there are any other only-static libraries out
there and how they maintainers manage rele
