On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 15:04:06 -0800, John Reiser jreiser@bitwagon.com wrote:
Going forward, there should be a -libs package (and probably a -devel package) and its use should be encouraged (instead of lzma source), particularly for new uses. Probably it is too difficult to force _all_ existing uses of lzma source to convert to using -libs. The reasons have to do with ten years of history: the original author of lzma resisted providing libraries, the internal interfaces changed too rapidly, the original licensing was too restrictive, etc. Today http://7-zip.org/sdk.html says "LZMA SDK is placed in the public domain".
That is the standard stuff. What I was really asking is if there should be a source package so that upx could be built without having a second copy of the SDK in another srpm?