Re: fedora-packager purpose and future
Dne 4.9.2018 v 21:46 Rex Dieter napsal(a):
Ben Rosser wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 2:59 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)math.unl.edu> wrote:
>> Vít Ondruch wrote:
>>
>>> This is a bit unfortunate considering this is package
>>> every Fedora packager has to have installed
>> I don't think that's true, can you explain?
> Well, the "join the package collection maintainers" document
> explicitly tells new packagers to install fedora-packager, because it
> will "bring in everything necessary for general packaging work".
Sorry, I was going off the $SUBJECT that referened "fedora-package", which
didn't exist as far as I could tell. *fedora-packager*, yes indeed.
Sorry for the typo and confusion. I was speaking about fedora-packager
indeed.
And people need it not just because the "join ..." page suggests that,
but there appears to be circular dependency between fedpkg and
fedora-packager, presumably because fedora-pacakger ships some
configuration files for koji, etc.
I think that the idea behind this package was to have everything
possibly needed by Fedora packager installed by single package. But when
it is not maintained, then it somehow looses its point.
V.