Major Description
Some people used to depend on the libhdfs3 library maintained alongside HAWQ. This library was merged into the HAWQ codebase, making the situation a bit more confusing.
Is independent use of libhdfs3 still supported by this community? If so what is the best way for packagers to reason about versions and releases of this component? It would be convenient to see documentation on how people can best depend on libhdfs3 separately from HAWQ if this is an intention.
It looks like people have actually submitted work to the old version
See: https://github.com/Pivotal-Data-Attic/pivotalrd-libhdfs3/pull/28
It looks like the warning that the library had moved has been removed:
This removal may lead to some frustration