adding optipng to extras

Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Sun Jul 2 16:13:33 UTC 2006


On 02/07/06, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> yes, thanks for your comment, actually I was refering to the Guidelines in my
> first email. Sorry, that I did not make this clear.
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-17396a3b06ec849a7c0c6fc3243673b17e5fed90
> says that packages should not include their own version of a library. This is
> what OptiPNG does. Does this block OptiPNG from beeing added to Extras?

Yes, I believe that is a blocker. You could package it to use the
currently packaged version of that library though. Or convince
upstream  OptiPNG folks to move to using the upstream library,
submitting their patches if necessary. What library is it that they
include?

Jonathan




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