[Fedora-packaging] Clarification of Static Libraries packaging guidelines

[Jon Ciesla]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 19:00:50 +0100, Patrice wrote:
>
>   
>> There should be no foo-devel-static. But I am not sure that there is a need
>> to change the guideline since it doesn't mention the devel-static 
>> possibility.
>>     
>
> So, we should get rid of the six remaining -devel-static packages then.
> One is in F12 "updates", btw. ;)  One at RPM Fusion.
>
> Though, without hanging around on IRC I still don't know whether I could
> simply go ahead and fix the packages for F13 devel or if this would be
> a case of filing tickets and waiting many months for a reaction.
>
>   
I'd file the bugs, explain the problem, and include a short-ish timeline 
in which you expect a response or will make the change yourself.  I say 
2 weeks, unless the maintainer has something listed on the Vacation wiki 
page.  Then, if the don't reply, they were warned, just do it and take 
care of any deps.

My $0.02.

-J
>> But once again, I think that the guidelines are clear on that subject:
>>     
>
> Well, I do too, but that's the theory only as I've found two review
> requests that create the full set of libfoo, libfoo-static + virtual
> libfoo-devel and libfoo-devel-static in libfoo-static.
>
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