[Fedora-packaging] Proposal: Remove BuildRequires: exceptions from the guidelines

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed May 6 17:48:31 UTC 2015


On 05/06/2015 07:12 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "VO" == Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com> writes:
>
> VO> # dnf repoquery --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=rawhide --requires rpm-build
>
> Those dependencies could change at any time.  I would like for them to
> be able to change without the guidelines having to change with them.
> Obviously any change would break some package somewhere, but at least it
> would get one committee out of the process.

As much as I welcome this effort, I think we need a detailed and fixed 
per-fedora-release package list, to be able to give packagers some 
helpful guidance.

That said, why can't we have a link to the list being used by mock
(The packages being listed in mock's "buildsys-build") inside the FPG?

Ralf



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