Bug 127976 - Please remove the stale {beecrypt,zlib,elfutils}
Summary: Please remove the stale {beecrypt,zlib,elfutils}
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-07-15 21:24 UTC by R P Herrold
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-07-16 09:19:37 UTC
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Description R P Herrold 2004-07-15 21:24:05 UTC
beecrypt,zlib, and elfutils have been in and out of the RPM tarball,
as the product has evolved, and stabilized (both rpm, and the others 
;)).  

These subdirectories are stale, and unmaintained, and cause
hard-to-solve and unneeded build problems on certain architectures,
and with later headers and compilers.

All the releases at RH which used this are now out of support.  Would
it be possible to 'nuke' this cruft away, and remove this trap for the
unwary.

thanks --

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2004-07-16 09:19:37 UTC
Beecrypt, zlib, and elfutils are ib CVS because they contain
splint and doxygen annotations that are useful for maintaining
rpm.

zlib has had, and will have again, tunings for performance speedups
appropriate for rpm, but inappropriate in general.

elfutils is included in CVS to assist non-linux elf platforms
with porting. Ditto beecrypt. Both have fragile and complicated
API's that are tricky to get correct.

The sub-directories are included or not as needed and appropriate.
Yes, external is preferred on current linux platforms; that
is not true for legacy linux distributions nor non-linux.


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