Plan for tomorrows (20070426) FESCO meeting

[Nigel Jones]

> Hi,
>
> Please find below the list of topics that are likely to come up in the
> next FESCo meeting that is scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday at 17:00 UTC
> in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.org:
>
> /topic FESCo meeting -- Packaging Committee Report -- spot, abadger1999,
> rdieter, tibbs, scop
>
> /topic FESCO-Meeting -- new sponsor nominations anyone?
>
> /topic FESCO-Meeting -- MISC -- Package Database - abadger1999
>
> /topic FESCO-Meeting -- MISC -- F7 preparation
>
> /topic FESCO-Meeting -- MISC -- Broken Upgrades paths - jwb
>
> /topic FESCO-Meeting -- EPEL
>
> /topic FESCo meeting -- Free discussion around Fedora
>
> You want something to be discussed? Send a note to the list in reply to
> this mail and I'll add it to the schedule (I can't promise we will get
> to it tomorrow, but we'll most likely will if we don't run out of time).
> You can also propose topics in the meeting while it is in the "Free
> discussion around Fedora" phase.
If possible could the discussion of allowing camlimages, ocamlSDL and
freetennis (all pending review) [1][2][3] to be packaged with static
libraries be discussed during the next meeting?  I most likely can't
attend due to the meeting time, but I'd really appreciate a decision.

A bit of background on the issue:
While packaging freetennis, I discovered missing dependencies in the
repository, and decided to package ocamlSDL and camlimages to allow
building on freetennis, upon inspecting the dependencies of all the rpms,
it seemed suspect and I posted a trailing note at the bottom of the review
requests, and then posted a message to fedora-packaging [4][5] receiving a
'possible ok' response from Toshio [6] (as clarification to Toshio's post,
I believe that dynamic linking is possible under certain conditions, but
it requires changes to the program source, which I may look at doing if
ocaml continues to not allow dynamic linking).

I filed a bug against ocaml [7] to get the maintainer to look at solutions
for this problem, but nothing seems to have been done.  (I'd tested an
unmaintained patch against the fedora version, which failed miserably in
ways that I was not comfortable fixing).

So yeah, if that can be discussed at some point, I would really appreciate
it.
>
> If your name/nick is on above list please update the status on the
> Extras schedule pages in the wiki ahead of the meeting. That way all the
> other FESCo members and interested contributors know what up ahead of
> the meeting. And we will avoid long delays in the meeting -- those often
> arise if someone describes the recent happenings on a topic directly in
> the meeting while all the others have to wait for his slow typing...
>
> Thanks,
> /B
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[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235805
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235804
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235815
[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2007-April/msg00100.html
[5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2007-April/msg00164.html
[6] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2007-April/msg00170.html
[7] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236497