Re: Third-party forks of packaged projects

[Kyle Edwards <kyle.edwards@kitware.com>]

On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 10:21 +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Alastair - these libraries are already in the public namespace
and named libadios2_atl.so, etc. so as not to conflict with an
unvendored version. If we decide to unvendor them later on, it won't be
difficult at all.

Kyle