Re: Third-party forks of packaged projects
On 28/04/2020 21:44, Kyle Edwards wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-04-25 at 20:31 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> I'd say that it depends, and that it should be addressed on the
>> case-by-case basis.
> I do have another scenario I'd like to address. ADIOS uses a stack of
> closely related but separate projects, all developed by Greg
> Eisenhauer, which, as far as I know, are not used by any other major
> software project. ADIOS is the main driver behind them. The projects
> are the following:
>
> https://github.com/GTkorvo/atl
> https://github.com/GTkorvo/dill
> https://github.com/GTkorvo/EVPath
> https://github.com/GTkorvo/ffs
>
> ADIOS vendors these projects as well. Are these reasonable to be
> packaged with ADIOS, or should they be packaged separately?
I think vendoring libraries that are only used by this package is fine.
I would however put them in a "public" place and namespace (eg
/usr/lib/$ARCH/libatl.* ) rather than a subdir or namespace
('libatl-adios') so that there is a clear collision if someone else
attempts to package it; in which case it can be 'unvendored' and shared.
> Kyle
Regards
Alastair
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