Is there any legal barrier for packaging Popcorn Time for Fedora?
by James Abtahi
Hi,
I'm sure many of you are aware of the fact that Popcorn Time has been
resurrected and forked into two separate projects. The software itself
(here I'm referring get-popcorn.com version) is entirely free and
open-source (GPLv3) and it has become so popular that I think we should
consider adding it to the official fedora repos. Debian considered
adding the original version to their repos but when the development got
discontinued they abandoned the idea. Now that the project has been
forked and development continued I think there is a high possibility
that it may end up there soon.
The software may or may not be legal depending on the place you live and
I was wondering if this could be a barrier for getting Popcorn TIme
accepted into official fedora repos. Please let me know what you think.
Best,
James Abtahi
FAS: jam3s
8 years, 9 months
Summary/Minutes from today's FPC Meeting (2014-05-22 16:00 - 18:00 UTC)
by James Antill
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#fedora-meeting-1: fpc
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Meeting started by abadger1999 at 16:03:58 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2014-05-22/fpc.2014-05-...
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Meeting summary
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* Roll Call (abadger1999, 16:04:09)
* #339 software collections in Fedora (abadger1999, 16:08:18)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/339 (abadger1999,
16:08:23)
* 382 Go Packaging Draft (abadger1999, 16:24:50)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/382 (abadger1999,
16:24:55)
* ACTION: geppetto to rewrite the .desktop guidelines to express our
views better and help rhughes make the AppData draft match with
that. (abadger1999, 16:36:05)
* #419 ruby193 in SCL (abadger1999, 16:37:37)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/419 (abadger1999,
16:37:44)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mmaslano/Ruby193_in_SCL
(abadger1999, 17:43:07)
Meeting ended at 18:03:25 UTC.
Action Items
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* geppetto to rewrite the .desktop guidelines to express our views
better and help rhughes make the AppData draft match with that.
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* geppetto to rewrite the .desktop guidelines to express our views
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Re: [Fedora-packaging] fedoras default cflags & clang
by Paolo Bonzini
Il 30/05/2014 11:03, Jakub Jelinek ha scritto:
>>> > >Many folks like to use clang as their primary compiler for various reasons, is there anyone who knows a workaround or fix?
>> >
>> > I think FPC (and/or FESCO) should decide on whether we want to
>> > allow/disallow using clang for official Fedora rpms.
> https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/847
> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-05-14/fesco.2012-05-...
FWIW, the IRC meeting log mentioned the famous page about better clang
diagnostics. That page is comparing clang against GCC 4.2 (Fedora 8 or so).
As of 2014, I only know two cases where clang is still better: more
complete caret diagnostics, and better recovery from invalid types
(clang provides suggestions and uses it for the rest of the compilation
to avoid cascaded error messages).
As of 2014, clang's main strength over GCC is the static analyzer, not
the diagnostics or the optimization.
Paolo
9 years
Re: [Fedora-packaging] fedoras default cflags & clang
by Ralf Corsepius
On 05/29/2014 10:28 PM, Tim St Clair wrote:
> I've been seeing this bug crop up in many circles:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099282
>
> Many folks like to use clang as their primary compiler for various reasons, is there anyone who knows a workaround or fix?
I think FPC (and/or FESCO) should decide on whether we want to
allow/disallow using clang for official Fedora rpms.
I for one am in favor of system-wide consistency and thus am in favor of
banning such use cases in official Fedora rpms.
Ralf
9 years
Summary/Minutes from today's FPC Meeting (2014-05-29 16:00 - 17:45 UTC)
by James Antill
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#fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Packaging Committee
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Meeting started by spot at 16:01:19 UTC. The full logs are available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2014-05-29/fpc.2014-05-...
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Meeting summary
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* Roll Call (spot, 16:01:28)
* Follow-up: Software Collections in Fedora -
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/339 (spot, 16:06:49)
* ACTION: Table SC until next week when abadger1999 is around (spot,
16:07:49)
* Follow-up: Go Packaging Guidelines Draft -
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/382 (spot, 16:08:14)
* ACTION: Waiting on submitter to reply to last week's comments
(spot, 16:09:29)
* Exception for bundled library FoX in exciting -
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/400 (spot, 16:09:53)
* ACTION: spot will try to make a FoX package that has both "normal"
and "pretty-print" libraries (spot, 16:20:44)
* ruby193 in SCL - https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/419 (spot,
16:21:01)
* ACTION: Tabled to be addressed along with other SCL ticket with
abadger1999 next week (spot, 16:23:48)
* systemd or systemd-units should not be required if a spec file does a
%systemd_post command - https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/425
(spot, 16:24:18)
* ACTION: if mattdm confirms that they are working around this issue
with a fakesystemd package, spot will close, otherwise, we will
revisit. (spot, 16:28:32)
* Bundling exception request for nodejs-weak-map -
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/424 (spot, 16:29:15)
* ACTION: Bundling request approved (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0). Must be
unbundled when Harmony standard is finalized and code is available
in Node.js core. (spot, 16:34:22)
* Need policy and macros for binfmt.d file handling -
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/426 (spot, 16:35:12)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Spot/binfmtd-draft
(spot, 16:47:19)
* ACTION: Spot's draft approved (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0) (spot, 16:50:44)
* Bundling exception requests for new julia package -
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/427 (spot, 16:52:00)
* ACTION: Temporary exception for libuv bundling in Julia granted,
until system libuv is a practical option. (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0) (spot,
16:58:35)
* ACTION: Temporary bundling of Rmath is approved until it is no
longer needed by Julia (0.4). (+1:6, 0:0, -1:0) (spot, 17:03:26)
* ACTION: SmootherFrOgZ will make a dSFMT package, and Julia can use
that. :) (spot, 17:14:50)
* Exception for bundling css in infrastructure application -
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/428 (spot, 17:16:08)
* ACTION: Temporary bundling exception granted for bootstrap-fedora
css resources until bootstrap-fedora is in Fedora. (+1:6, 0:0, -1:0)
(spot, 17:19:37)
* Bundling exception request for apitrace: libbacktrace -
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/429 (spot, 17:20:18)
* ACTION: Tabled pending more info from Jakub Jelinek (spot,
17:29:23)
* mod_cluster EPEL package conflict with product -
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/432 (spot, 17:30:47)
* ACTION: Rathann will answer with suggestions and close ticket when
he has time. (spot, 17:37:29)
* Add %{python3_version} and %{python3_version_nodots} to
Packaging:Python Macros section -
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/433 (spot, 17:37:54)
* ACTION: new macros approved (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0) (spot, 17:40:28)
* ACTION: new macros approved (+1:6, 0:0, -1:0) (spot, 17:40:32)
* Open Floor (spot, 17:41:14)
* ACTION: Bundling exception for libbacktrace approved, Provides:
bundled(libbacktrace). (+1:6, 0:0, -1:0) (spot, 17:45:55)
Meeting ended at 17:46:31 UTC.
Action Items
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* Table SC until next week when abadger1999 is around
* Waiting on submitter to reply to last week's comments
* spot will try to make a FoX package that has both "normal" and
"pretty-print" libraries
* Tabled to be addressed along with other SCL ticket with abadger1999
next week
* if mattdm confirms that they are working around this issue with a
fakesystemd package, spot will close, otherwise, we will revisit.
* Bundling request approved (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0). Must be unbundled when
Harmony standard is finalized and code is available in Node.js core.
* Spot's draft approved (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0)
* Temporary exception for libuv bundling in Julia granted, until system
libuv is a practical option. (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0)
* Temporary bundling of Rmath is approved until it is no longer needed
by Julia (0.4). (+1:6, 0:0, -1:0)
* SmootherFrOgZ will make a dSFMT package, and Julia can use that. :)
* Temporary bundling exception granted for bootstrap-fedora css
resources until bootstrap-fedora is in Fedora. (+1:6, 0:0, -1:0)
* Tabled pending more info from Jakub Jelinek
* Rathann will answer with suggestions and close ticket when he has
time.
* new macros approved (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0)
* new macros approved (+1:6, 0:0, -1:0)
* Bundling exception for libbacktrace approved, Provides:
bundled(libbacktrace). (+1:6, 0:0, -1:0)
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* Rathann
* Rathann will answer with suggestions and close ticket when he has
time.
* SmootherFrOgZ
* SmootherFrOgZ will make a dSFMT package, and Julia can use that. :)
* spot
* spot will try to make a FoX package that has both "normal" and
"pretty-print" libraries
* if mattdm confirms that they are working around this issue with a
fakesystemd package, spot will close, otherwise, we will revisit.
* **UNASSIGNED**
* Table SC until next week when abadger1999 is around
* Waiting on submitter to reply to last week's comments
* Tabled to be addressed along with other SCL ticket with abadger1999
next week
* Bundling request approved (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0). Must be unbundled when
Harmony standard is finalized and code is available in Node.js core.
* Spot's draft approved (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0)
* Temporary exception for libuv bundling in Julia granted, until
system libuv is a practical option. (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0)
* Temporary bundling of Rmath is approved until it is no longer needed
by Julia (0.4). (+1:6, 0:0, -1:0)
* Temporary bundling exception granted for bootstrap-fedora css
resources until bootstrap-fedora is in Fedora. (+1:6, 0:0, -1:0)
* Tabled pending more info from Jakub Jelinek
* new macros approved (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0)
* new macros approved (+1:6, 0:0, -1:0)
* Bundling exception for libbacktrace approved, Provides:
bundled(libbacktrace). (+1:6, 0:0, -1:0)
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* spot (158)
* geppetto (67)
* Rathann (49)
* SmootherFrOgZ (22)
* RemiFedora (19)
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Common name for subpackage contains tools for a library?
by Christopher Meng
Hi,
I'd like to know if it's meaningful to create a guideline similar to
-doc subpackage for tools of a library. Currently there are too many
ways, -bin, -tools,- utils, -util, and that's shapeless IMO.
Ideas?
Thanks.
Yours sincerely,
Christopher Meng
Noob here.
http://cicku.me
9 years
Summary/Minutes from today's FPC Meeting (2014-05-15 16:00 - 17:00 UTC)
by James Antill
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#fedora-meeting-1: fpc
======================
Meeting started by abadger1999 at 16:06:10 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2014-05-15/fedora-meeti...
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Meeting summary
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* Roll Call (abadger1999, 16:06:15)
* #339 software collections in Fedora (abadger1999, 16:12:12)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/339 (abadger1999,
16:12:17)
* #382 Go Packaging Guidelines Draft (abadger1999, 16:15:28)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/382 (abadger1999,
16:15:34)
* #418 Bundling exception for reaver-wps (abadger1999, 16:35:16)
* #382 Go Packaging Guidelines Draft (abadger1999, 16:35:52)
* abadger1999 to ask for some go spec files to look at as well. (A
library and a binary using the library) (abadger1999, 16:36:24)
* #418 Bundling exception for reaver-wps (abadger1999, 16:36:32)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/418 (abadger1999,
16:36:37)
* reaver-wps usage of wpa-supplicant code is a fork: thus allowed and
no need for virtual provides. APPROVED: (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0)
(abadger1999, 16:41:31)
* #422 move an existing package to a different upstream fork
(abadger1999, 16:43:33)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/422 (abadger1999,
16:43:40)
* #423 Bundling exception request (copylib) for TommyDS library in
SnapRAID (abadger1999, 16:45:56)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/423 (abadger1999,
16:46:01)
* SnapRAID is allowed to bundle TommyDS library for the following
reasons: Same upstream for both, tweaking header values to configure
the library at buildtime (copylib), and SnapRAID is the only user of
TommyDS. Please see us again if any of that changes. Approved (+1:5,
0:0, -1:0) (abadger1999, 16:54:46)
* Open Floor (abadger1999, 16:55:33)
* #430 Minor PHP Guidelines change (abadger1999, 16:57:04)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/430 (abadger1999,
16:57:08)
* https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/430 PHP Change for pecl_docdir
approved: (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0) (abadger1999, 16:59:41)
Meeting ended at 16:59:59 UTC.
Action Items
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Action Items, by person
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* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* geppetto (32)
* racor (11)
* limburgher (10)
* RemiFedora (8)
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