Help wanted removing --vendor from spec files

[Jon Ciesla]

With the exception of a few FTBFS, this is done.

Thanks to all who took part.

-J


On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings Games SIG, this is a request for help in cleaning up one area of
> spec files that has affected a good many games packages.
>
> == Background ==
>
> For Fedora 19 we're trying to get rid of the vendorization of .desktop
> files.  This is a legacy of Fedora Extras and early Fedora days when
> Guidelines specified that .desktop files should be installed with:
>
> desktop-file-install --vendor "fedora" [...]
>
> It was realized after a few releases that desktop-file-install's
> --vendor flag caused issues because its implementation was to rename the
> .desktop file; prepending the value of vendor to the filename.  In the past
> we decided that new packages would not use --vendor but that packages that
> already did so must keep doing so.  This is because software that
> customized
> the menus would likely copy the .desktop file (complete with the vendor
> prefix).  If we stopped installing with --vendor, anyone who customized
> those entries in their menus would end up with two entries because none of
> the software would be able to figure out that the entries were really for
> the same thing.
>
> For Fedora 19 we (FPC and FESCo) have decided that it's time to get rid of
> this legacy behaviour.  If we can get rid of --vendor in all spec files for
> F19 and above, then users will only suffer ill effects once, when they
> upgrade from a previous release to F19.  Getting rid of vendor will solve
> issues for GNOME3 and other softweare which doesn't handle the file
> renaming
> that --vendor does so now is a good time to do so.
>
> == Help Needed ==
>
> I've assembled a list of packages that are installing .desktop files with
> vendorized filenames:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/Devendorize_desktop_files#List_of_affected_packages
>
> as well as some tips for porting spec files so that they can work on both
> Fedora 19+ and older Fedora and EPEL releases.  a few provenpackagers have
> been working on the list of packages but it is a slow process with so many
> packages to change.  It would be great if more people would join in.  There
> are a lot of games in the list of packages so I was hoping that some people
> from the games SIG might either modify their own packages and check them
> off
> the list or, if they're provenpackagers, join in in porting any packages
> that are using --vendor to no longer use it in F19+.
>
> It would be great if we could get this done before Fedora 19 branches from
> rawhide (2013-03-12) as after that date we'll have to modify packages in
> two
> branches, the F19 and Rawhide trees.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> -Toshio
>
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