[Bug 445980] Review Request: odpdom - Oversized Document Parser

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Summary: Review Request: odpdom - Oversized Document Parser


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445980





------- Additional Comments From tibbs at math.uh.edu  2008-05-12 17:53 EST -------
Well, it certainly doesn't hurt to discuss things with the upstream developers.
 Rathann, do you know their opinions on the topic?

However, please keep in mind that we never know what upstream may do.  Any
upstream developer of any library in the distro could do what Patrice describes
in his wiki page at any time anyway, so we have to be prepared to deal with that
with rebuilds if necessary.  We can cover ourselves as well as possible by
picking the lowest possible version.

Besides, Patrice's argument has been used to prevent introduction of shared
libraries for packages which really could use them (and give us security
exposure because of it; see libnet, for example).  I stand firmly against it. 
We have to be able to make a reasonable distro even in the face of upstreams
which do dumb things.

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