Some issues with packaging dolphin-emu

Jeremy alexjnewt at gmail.com
Wed Dec 21 21:10:32 CET 2011


I submitted a review request on bugzilla for dolphin-emu a few days ago
(https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2098 ) but there seems
to be two issues with dolphin.

The first issue seems to be that it requires libSOIL and SFML, which
have yet to be packaged by Fedora. The requests can be found here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759057
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759059
Dolphin, upon building, will build and include the libraries if such
library do not already exist. I realize fedora has a policy against
bundled libraries but I would hope an exception can be made for dolphin
as a temporary solution until libSOIL and SFML are accepted into
Fedora's repositories.

The second issue seems to be a licensing issue, as explained here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535073#29
I removed wiiuse as an explicit require of dolphin-emu, but the second
part of the issue maybe a little troublesome. I would assume these means
dolphin-emu would need to be put in non-free but I would like to know
what the devs think. Hopefully dolphin can still be included.


Thanks!

Jeremy Newton





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