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--- Comment #18 from Michael Matz 2008-08-29 06:17:50 MDT ---
Stefan: There is nothing forbidding other maintainers to touch packages
they don't maintain (it's considered good style to tell the maintainer of
course). Especially for janitory work its actually considered
nice to just do the work instead of annoying the maintainer. Cristians
cleanups make the distribution strictly better.
OTOH Cristian: The removal of libexpat-devel from fontconfig-devel is not
a 100% useful change. If you need fontconfig-devel, then most probably because
you want to link against libfontconfig.so. That in turn is linked against
libexpat.so.X, so having also installed libexpat.so seems reasonable. It's
correct that there's no strict requirement to have it (or the headers, because
the fontconfig headers don't refer to the expat headers), but it seems nice.
But there's not point in reverting this now.
So, if Cristian tells package maintainers about his changes in the future
and Stefan makes xorg-x11-libs buildrequire libexpat-devel, can we all go
back to work and live happily ever after? :-)
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