[EPEL-devel] Re: Where should branch requests be filed?

[Petr Pisar]

V Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 06:33:51PM -0700, Michel Alexandre Salim napsal(a):
>  I'm working on a tool to make it easier to create EPEL branch
> requests
>  in the case where there are transitive dependencies that also need to
>  be branched.
>  
>  I'm basing it on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_a_Fedora_package_in_EPEL
>  which provides some guidelines and some templates; however, it is a bit
>  vague on some aspects, namely:
>  
>      which product and component should the bug be filed against?
>  
>  I've been using Fedora/rawhide (with the FutureFeature keyword) if the package
>  has never been branched for EPEL before, and 'Fedora EPEL' / epelX (where X is
>  the branch requested) if it has, however, I can't find a written document where
>  this is recommended, though I thought I've read it somewhere in the past.
>  
>  If I can simply use Fedora/rawhide, this would simplify the tool a lot:
>  - we can almost always assume there is a {'product: 'Fedora',
> 'component': srpm}
>    with some rare exceptions e.g. the srpm is in base CentOS but has missing
>    subpackages (see recent discussion on the topic)
>  - if the package is branched for EPEL at some point, we can file the request
>    against {'product': 'Fedora EPEL', 'component': srpm}. But what
> version to file
>    against?
>    - bpython: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1782782
>      phoronix-test-suite: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1976280
>      these are the ideal cases; the request is for an 'epel8' branch and
> 'epel7' and
>      'epel8' are listed as available versions, so the request was filed against
> 'epel8'
>    - nextcloud-client: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1972910
>      this is a request for 'epel8-next', but that is not available as a product
>  
>  The tool will thus need to query Bugzilla to locate the component on either
>  Fedora EPEL or Fedora, and then figure out what versions are listed; from my
>  initial experimentation with python-bugzilla:
> https://github.com/python-bugzilla/python-bugzilla
>  this does not seem trivial.
>  
>  If filing against Fedora/rawhide is fine, I can edit the wiki to match. It should
>  probably also mention that the EPEL Packagers SIG group can be added as a co-maintainer,
>  but I'll experiment with the wording first when testing the tool.
>   
The algorithm for filing bugs is complicated because there are Fedora
maintainers who do not want to deal with EPEL. If I were one of them I would
feel offended that I'm getting requests for EPEL 8 if there is already EPEL 7
maintainer.

I want to say you should bite the bullet and implement it in the complicated
way.

-- Petr