Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 09:35 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
>Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
>>If you think there is any issues that needs to be discussed as part of
>>Fedora development feel free to do so especially if you are willing to
>>contribute towards resolving any such problems.
>
>Remove elfutils from Fedora Core.
So, you're saying that anything which isn't controlled by Fedora
shouldn't be shipped in Fedora Core?
I guess we might as well stop trying to ship anything then as we don't
have direct control over *most* of what is shipped.
Most of those projects have maintainers who respond in a somewhat timely
fashion, and/or a public source tree (CVS, svn, etc.), and/or other
forms of not-just-Red Hat participation. Certainly most Fedora projects
have "upstream." That's fine. What is not fine is a project that just
sits there like a bump on a log despite open Bugzilla issues and
demonstrated interest from "downstream" Fedora.
Note that elfutils is directly required by a number of packages
within
Fedora Core and thus can't just be removed
According to "rpm -qR elfutils" they are [excluding self references]:
libc.so.6
libdl.so.2
/sbin/ldconfig
which are all part of glibc. So elfutils can be flushed just by
merging it into glibc. Everybody else uses binutils. Not many
developers have ever used the "eu-" versions of nm, strip, size,
readelf, addr2line.
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