package review: Is it a must to use system libraries ?

[David Juran]

On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 20:15 +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote:

> >> I've been working on review of bsnes [1]. One of the issues raised
> >> before I began was the upstream source includes some libraries, some
> >> of which are already packaged and included in either fedora or rpmfusion.

The fedora packaging guidelines are quite clear on this point,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Duplication_of_system_libraries IMHO, this is a very good principle and should apply to rpmfusion as well.

> > 
> Is the fact that bsnes uses patched snes_ntsc, and that the said patch
> is not necessarily compatible with other apps using the lib a good
> enough reason?

Without knowing any details of the particulars, it seems we really are
talking about a fork here. So what the question boils down to, are the
patches to snes_ntsc really incompatible or can they be pushed upstream?
And if they can't be pushed upstream, is the fork well-maintained and of
quality enough to merit it to be included in rpmfusion?

/David 

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