RPM Fusion (Fedora - free) Package Build Report 2009-03-29

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 30 March 2009 at 05:40, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> rpmfusion-pkgs-report at rpmfusion.org wrote:
> > x264-0.0.0-0.20.20080905.fc10
> > -----------------------------
> > * Thu Mar 26 2009 Dominik Mierzejewski <...> 0.0.0-0.20.20080905
> > - build against gpac-devel-static by default,
> >   x264 needs just a small part of gpac
> 
> I don't really see this as a good reason to build against the static
> version. This means it will have to be rebuilt each time the "small part of
> gpac" it uses changes. Plus, did you ask anybody before doing this? In
> Fedora, static linking must be approved by FESCo, I'm not sure what the
> procedure in RPM Fusion should be, but a single maintainer making the
> decision shouldn't be it.

I talked it over with Nicolas. He wanted gpac support in x264, but thought
that linking with libgpac brought too many dependencies and I agreed.

Regards,
R.

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