third_party (ex-lib_3p) now ready for review.

Ira Cooper ira at samba.org
Tue Aug 5 20:45:37 MDT 2014


On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:26:49AM -0700, Ira Cooper wrote:
> >
> > Because it is a non-issue?  Everyone in this situation will upgrade their
> > popt due to the N other packages that use popt.
> >
> >  At the moment, tdb/ldb/samba support all versions of popt, but that may
> > > change
> > > in the future. Popt is also quite a simple library; it's more of an
> issue
> > > with libraries like Kerberos, tdb or LDAP.
> > >
> >
> > You are correct, is is a much bigger issue with those libraries.  Getting
> > the detection right is hard.  We've all seen packages mess it up, and go
> > WTF?
> >
> > Given the state of disrepair of even our current libraries... I'm voting
> to
> > combine this logic so it is kept up properly.
> >
> > Sorry, we just disagree here.  I suggest we have some others weigh in,
> as I
> > suggested previously.
>
> Ping ! Where did we get to with this ? I'd really like
> to get the third-party libraries separated out for 4.2.0.


Busy.  But I'll carve out some time to deal tomorrow hopefully.

-Ira


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