Hi,
I maintain IDJC [1], which depends on libshout. The latest version
though depends on libshout-idjc a fork of the original library, since
the idjc upstream developer wanted some extra functionality on libshout
and didn't want to wait for libshout upstream to adopt his changes.
I've read the relevant documentation [2] but I'm not sure what's the
best way to proceed. The good thing that he doesn't bundle his version
of libshout, but instead he has made it a separate release [3], which
could also be packaged for Fedora. But a fork is a fork.
Should I just make a request for exception and package the forked
library or should the package be orphaned?
[1]
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/idjc
[2]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
[3]
http://sourceforge.net/projects/idjc/files/
--
Nikos Roussos
comzeradd @
freenode.net