Kevin Fenzi wrote:
Well, according to our guidelines:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Treatment_Of_Bundled_Libraries
They should just remove the bundled libs in %prep:
"Bundled libraries (and/or their source code) must be explicitly
deleted during %prep."
So, could you file a bug against this package and ask them to drop the
patch and instead delete the bundled libs in prep.
Thanks.
Well, a patch may be needed to disable the usage of the bundled code in
makefiles and such. But yes, the actual removal of the bundled code should
be done by a rm -rf in %prep and not by a patch bundling yet another copy of
the huge library with prepended - signs. ;-) The patch should not contain
file or directory removals.
Kevin Kofler