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Description of problem: The sources being used to build the xsd package contain a bundled version of libcult. libcult should be shipped as a separate package and xsd be built using this external libcult. Unbundled xsd-tarballs are available under http://www.codesynthesis.com/download/xsd/3.3/ An unbundled version of libcult is available under ftp://kolpackov.net/pub/projects/libcult/1.4/ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xsd-3.3.0 Additional info: - libcult-1.4.6.tar.bz2 seems to be identical to the version being bundled in xsd.
XSD author Boris Kolpackov has split his creation into multiple pieces. As stated at http://www.codesynthesis.com/projects/xsd/ dependencies include following pieces of code that are specific to xsd and AFAIK are not shared by any other piece of software in Fedora: - build - libxsd-frontend - libbackend-elements - libcult - libfrontend-elements (pulled in by libxsd-frontend) To make building xsd easier, he is distributing a "bundle" that contains all of these libraries. Splitting up the bundle would result in 7 packages instead of one, considerably ramping up the packaging and maintenance effort required. Debian is also using the bundled version to build their xsd package. http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/xsd The only justification to splitting up the package could come from another software in fedora that depends on either libcult or any other "bundled" library of xsd. As of today I am not aware that any such software exists in Fedora. Therefore I would like to ask the reporter if he is aware of any package in Fedora of Fedora Extra repositories that either depends on libcult or includes it in it's source code.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle. Changing version to '19'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19
Any progress on this? Has FPC formally granted an exception on this package? If not, I hereby formally ask you, Antti to file a bundling request to FPC, rsp. to remove your package from Fedora.
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