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Bug 1076853 - unalz bundles bzip2
Summary: unalz bundles bzip2
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: unalz
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Petr Pisar
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: DuplicSysLibsTracker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-03-15 19:14 UTC by Ville Skyttä
Modified: 2014-03-25 06:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-03-24 13:51:39 UTC
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Description Ville Skyttä 2014-03-15 19:14:54 UTC 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Treatment_Of_Bundled_Libraries

unalz is using a bundled copy of bzip2.

$ rpm -qlp http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/unalz/0.65/8.fc20/x86_64/unalz-debuginfo-0.65-8.fc20.x86_64.rpm | grep /bzip2
/usr/src/debug/unalz/bzip2
/usr/src/debug/unalz/bzip2/blocksort.c
/usr/src/debug/unalz/bzip2/bzlib.h
/usr/src/debug/unalz/bzip2/bzlib_private.h
/usr/src/debug/unalz/bzip2/compress.c
/usr/src/debug/unalz/bzip2/crctable.c
/usr/src/debug/unalz/bzip2/huffman.c
/usr/src/debug/unalz/bzip2/randtable.c
Comment 1 Petr Pisar 2014-03-17 15:21:14 UTC 
It's not possible to unbundle the bzip2 library as the tool modifies the sources (especially the decompression routines) to implement the ALZip format.

I'm going to remove this package from Fedora.
Comment 2 Petr Pisar 2014-03-17 15:39:27 UTC 
Package removal advertisement <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/193749>.
Comment 3 Petr Pisar 2014-03-24 13:51:39 UTC 
Package has been marked as dead with commit 4e72cad54708998ec43842e2d85acb32a51e24d6. Package has been retired in F21.
Comment 4 Petr Pisar 2014-03-25 06:57:35 UTC 
Request to block the package in koji <https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5872>.
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