On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:41:19 +0100, Ralf wrote:
>>> * Early-warning system => "binutils" was
closed WONTFIX:
>>>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/556040
>>> I may need some backup in case the reopened ticket will be ignored.
>>
>> Amazing how responsive some maintainers can be if they want to close
>> something as WONTFIX or NOTABUG together with a slap into the face.
>>
>> "They don't make any sense for binutils" is all what Jakub
Jelinek
>> added about the current Fedora Packaging Guidelines.
If there is something which doesn't make sense, then it's their rationale:
* They already ships shared libs.
News in the bz ticket.
Btw, only binutils itself is linked shared with the two troublesome libs.
Here's the list of packages in F-12 that "BuildRequires: binutils-devel"
with
an unknown purpose:
$ repoquery --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo='*source*' --srpm
--whatrequires binutils-devel --qf "%{name}"|sort|uniq
alleyoop
avarice
CodeAnalyst-gui
eclipse-oprofile
gcl
kdesdk
kernel
ksplice
latrace
libdwarf
lush
mutrace
oprofile
pfmon
sblim-wbemcli
stapitrace
sysprof