packaging a static library

[Kevin Kofler]

Daniel Drake wrote:
> The upstream library is already in Fedora as a shared library.
> I guess the approach I will take is to install our audited version as a
> shared library under a different name (libtommath_olpc?) which the
> components will then dynamically link against.

While that at least conforms to our packaging guidelines, I think this is 
still against Fedora policies, in particular the Fedora Objectives. We want 
to ship the current software, not old audited one. Fedora is not a certified 
distribution, it's an up-to-date distribution.

        Kevin Kofler