Bundling exception

[Kevin Kofler]

Alec Leamas wrote:
> The standard questions:
> - Yes, the library has been modified. The overall diff is >6000 lines,
> baselined w latest svn version.
> - Ilya, the Bombono developer, has been in contact w John Torjo, the
> author of the package. As I understand the situation, John torjo has
> lost interest in it when it was rejected from inclusion in boost core.
> He has not made any attempts to fix things after 2008, including input
> from Ilya.
> - The package does not exist in Fedora, no maintainer to discuss with.
> - The 'bombono version' is of no interest to others as explained above,
> nor is the unpatched original sources.
> - Upstream is dead.
> - Upstream's attitude towards bundling is unknown.
> - This is a logging package, basically stream io to files and console.
> I see no immediate security concerns in this type of software(?)
> - The plan is to unbundle the package when boost-log becomes part of
> boost. This should be a minor fix.

I'm usually the bundling police ;-) , but considering all of the above, I 
agree that an exception seems warranted here. (And I see Hans, who 
definitely has more authority here on RPM Fusion than me, agrees.)

        Kevin Kofler