[Fedora-packaging] Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Orion Poplawski]

On 09/14/2015 09:57 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 16:54 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> On 12 September 2015 at 04:10, Adam Williamson
>> <adamwill at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>> I agree that the discussion here needs to be more broad-based; see
>>> the
>>> other thread fork. I was just providing support for Stephen's
>>> contention that this is not some airy-fairy theoretical problem,
>>> there
>>> are multiple examples of real things that people *wanted* to have
>>> packaged that are not packaged because the unbundling process was
>>> too
>>> onerous.
>>
>> This is the idea behind COPR and Fedora Playground though - ensuring
>> that packages that are *legally* acceptable for redistribution are
>> easy to publish and consume for Fedora and EPEL users, while still
>> being clearly distinct from the ones that have passed full review
>> against the packaging guidelines.
>>
>> What we haven't managed to do yet is update the package review
>> process
>> to better account for the distinction, such as by adopting a "COPR
>> first" model, where folks put a package up in COPR with bundled
>> components, and then either keep it there indefinitely, or
>> collaborate
>> with others on the unbundling effort.
> 
> Just to be awkward - I kinda found working with COPRs a PITA the only
> time I tried it and went back to using my own server space. This of
> course isn't an option for everyone, but it *is* an option for some of
> us who are already packaging stuff, and maybe I'm not the only one who
> prefers it? :)

COPR is getting better all the time and I find it pretty usable these days.
The big hurdle now for actually supporting packaging efforts in it IMO is lack
of permission controls.


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