Review requested: slmodemd

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Tue Jun 28 14:27:12 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 16:17 +0200, Andreas Thienemann wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Andreas Thienemann wrote:
> 
> > > > slmodemd is this user space program.
> > > This program contains binary-only components, and, as such, is
> > > not suitable for Fedora Extras.
> > you are mistaken.
> Hmmm. I checked again, more closely.
> Seems like we are both wrong, and right. ;)
> 
> The program which gets installed doesn't use any of the binary-only 
> components.
> They are however, included in the source tar.gz, but never linked against.
> 
> >From my point of view, this conforms to the extra policy.
> What do you think?

I think you should make a tarball which excludes the binary-only
components, and build the SRPM with that.

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