Github user pwendell commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1550#issuecomment-50280763
okay then - perhaps it's fine to stick with this. We can always make it
less stringent if people complain. My main concern was just frustrating
downstream packagers - thanks for chiming in on this one.
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