On Monday, August 28, 2017 1:59:42 AM CEST Kevin Kofler wrote:
Björn Persson wrote:
> To me it looks like an attempt to recruit packagers to help promoting
> the change _upstream_.
There is no upstream for kdelibs3. It is a compatibility package, which is
2 major (first digit!) versions behind what upstream actually develops. We
are mostly only backporting security fixes and compilation fixes, so that
legacy applications keep running.
> Look at what packagers are actually asked to do:
>
>
>> Propose patches to convert to libidn2, and notify upstream about it.
>
>
> Note well the words "propose", "notify" and
"upstream". How is that
> equivalent to blindly enforcing the change without assessing the impact?
It is when we are talking about a package like kdelibs3.
OK. That is a fair reason to relink kdelibs3 against libidn2 without
notifying upstream. But it does not mean that we should enforce such
approach for the rest of Fedora packages...
Kamil
> Kevin Kofler