Re: shlibs file changes proposal

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Joseph Carter writes ("shlibs file changes proposal"):
...
> Since the new quake stuff uses this, I will not be uploading any of the
> glquake stuff to master until such time as this proposal is addressed and
> accepted or rejected.  Not having something like my proposed solution
> really limits our ability to package some software without patching
> sources or defeating the purposes of the shlibs file.  And in the case of
> software like quake which is currently not even available with source yet
> (soon I hope) ...
> 
> It's a simple fix, tested, working, effective, and only slightly hackish.

Why should free software developers go out of our way, and do
something even `only slightly hackish', to transfer benefits to
non-free software ?

Ian.