Re: [Ceph-maintainers]: Bug#791445: ceph: uses bundled "libjerasure" library again
On 07/08/2015 04:13 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 15:57:41 Loic Dachary wrote:
>> Jerasure has been packaged for quite some
>> time now and no effort has been made to address these issues. Hence my
>> proposal to work on the packages if they were orphaned. Although I could
>> teach Thomas or someone else how and why this should be done, I don't have
>> that kind of time right now. Working on the package is less time
>> consuming.
>
> I reckon it is between you and Thomas. :)
>
> One of the reasons why I like standalone library is that it can run its own
> tests as well -- a something rarely seen in bundled (statically linked)
> libraries. Unfortunately at the moment "libjerasure" package do not run any
> tests... :(
There's no question asked here. Embedding a library which is at the same
time available standalone is a RC bug (severity: serious, because of a
strong policy violation) which shall be fixed asap (so the severity of
the bug is correct).
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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