packaging July 2019

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Schedule for Thursday's FPC Meeting (2019-08-01 16:00 UTC)
by James Antill 31 Jul '19

31 Jul '19

Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FPC meeting Thursday at 2019-08-01 16:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1 on irc.freenode.net. Local time information (via. uitime): ================= Day: Thursday ================== 2019-08-01 09:00 PDT US/Pacific 2019-08-01 12:00 EDT --> US/Eastern <-- 2019-08-01 16:00 UTC UTC 2019-08-01 17:00 BST Europe/London 2019-08-01 18:00 CEST Europe/Berlin 2019-08-01 18:00 CEST Europe/Paris 2019-08-01 21:30 IST Asia/Calcutta ---------------- New Day: Friday ----------------- 2019-08-02 00:00 HKT Asia/Hong_Kong 2019-08-02 00:00 +08 Asia/Singapore 2019-08-02 01:00 JST Asia/Tokyo 2019-08-02 02:00 AEST Australia/Brisbane Links to all tickets below can be found at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting = Followups = #topic #902 Cleanup & enhance spec files .fpc 902 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/902 #topic #904 Caret versioning .fpc 904 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/904 #topic #907 Which %__foo macros for executables are acceptable? .fpc 907 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/907 #topic #909 Suggest that linting/measuring-coverage is not for %check .fpc 909 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/909 = New business = #topic #914 Automatic R runtime dependencies .fpc 914 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/914 = Open Floor = For more complete details, please visit each individual ticket. The report of the agenda items can be found at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting If you would like to add something to this agenda, you can: * Reply to this e-mail * File a new ticket at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee * E-mail me directly * Bring it up at the end of the meeting, during the open floor topic. Note that added topics may be deferred until the following meeting.

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time of day in RPM changelogs
by Björn Persson 29 Jul '19

29 Jul '19

In a package review I came across a changelog entry in this format: * Thu Jul 25 12:24:56 CEST 2019 Name <nn(a)example.com> - 0.1.0-1 RPM appears to be able to parse that, but the time of day and the timezone code aren't in the format prescribed by the Packaging Guidelines. On the other hand it's not clear that the policy is meant to explicitly forbid such precise timestamps, as it seems mostly concerned with the placement of the version and release: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#changelogs Does the policy need to be updated to allow a time of day and a timezone code? Or does it need to be clarified to clearly forbid them? Ideally the date/time format variants that RPM accepts should be documented somewhere – in a spec file syntax specification perhaps – and the guidelines should point to that specification. Björn Persson

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RPM macro flag with optional value
by Miro Hrončok 26 Jul '19

26 Jul '19

Hey! Can I define an RPm macro that takes a flag that may or may not have an argument? Aka the behavior should be: %macro -> no flag used, assuming user doesn't want the X feature. %macro -X -> -X flag used without a value, assuming user wants the X feature, with defaults. %macro -X foo -> -X flag used with a value, assuming user wants the X feature, but want's to use "foo instead of the default value for X. Thanks. -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok

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Packaging Guidelines / Users & Groups
by Christopher Engelhard 26 Jul '19

26 Jul '19

Hi, the wiki-based packaging guidelines note that users or groups created by a package should not be removed [1]. This has been omitted from the current guidelines [2]. Is that deliberate (i.e. this rule no longer stands) or an oversight? Best, Christopher [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:UsersAndGroups#Allocation_Strategi… [2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/UsersAndGroups/#_… -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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Summary/Minutes from today's FPC Meeting (2019-07-25 16:00 - 17:00 UTC)
by James Antill 25 Jul '19

25 Jul '19

====================== #fedora-meeting-1: fpc ====================== Meeting started by geppetto at 16:00:04 UTC. The full logs are available at https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2019-07-25/fpc.2019-07-2… . Meeting summary --------------- * Roll Call (geppetto, 16:00:04) * Schedule (geppetto, 16:04:54) * LINK: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/packaging@lists.fedoraproject… (geppetto, 16:04:57) * #907 Which %__foo macros for executables are acceptable? (geppetto, 16:05:06) * #909 Suggest that linting/measuring-coverage is not for %check (geppetto, 16:18:37) * Open Floor (geppetto, 16:44:15) Meeting ended at 16:59:10 UTC. Action Items ------------ Action Items, by person ----------------------- * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * tibbs (50) * geppetto (45) * mhroncok (35) * zodbot (13) * decathorpe (12) * limburgher (5) * ignatenkobrain (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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HEADS UP: Source File Verification
by Igor Gnatenko 25 Jul '19

25 Jul '19

Hello, we've got new section in Packaging Guidelines about verifying upstream sources[0] with GPG. Please use it whenever possible :) Thanks! [0] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_source_file_ver…

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Schedule for Thursday's FPC Meeting (2019-07-25 16:00 UTC)
by James Antill 24 Jul '19

24 Jul '19

Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FPC meeting Thursday at 2019-07-25 16:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1 on irc.freenode.net. Local time information (via. uitime): ================= Day: Thursday ================== 2019-07-25 09:00 PDT US/Pacific 2019-07-25 12:00 EDT --> US/Eastern <-- 2019-07-25 16:00 UTC UTC 2019-07-25 17:00 BST Europe/London 2019-07-25 18:00 CEST Europe/Berlin 2019-07-25 18:00 CEST Europe/Paris 2019-07-25 21:30 IST Asia/Calcutta ---------------- New Day: Friday ----------------- 2019-07-26 00:00 HKT Asia/Hong_Kong 2019-07-26 00:00 +08 Asia/Singapore 2019-07-26 01:00 JST Asia/Tokyo 2019-07-26 02:00 AEST Australia/Brisbane Links to all tickets below can be found at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting = Followups = #topic #902 Cleanup & enhance spec files .fpc 902 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/902 #topic #904 Caret versioning .fpc 904 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/904 = New business = #topic #907 Which %__foo macros for executables are acceptable? .fpc 907 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/907 #topic #909 Suggest that linting/measuring-coverage is not for %check .fpc 909 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/909 #topic #914 Automatic R runtime dependencies .fpc 914 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/914 = Open Floor = For more complete details, please visit each individual ticket. The report of the agenda items can be found at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting If you would like to add something to this agenda, you can: * Reply to this e-mail * File a new ticket at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee * E-mail me directly * Bring it up at the end of the meeting, during the open floor topic. Note that added topics may be deferred until the following meeting.

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Schedule for Thursday's FPC Meeting (2019-07-18 16:00 UTC)
by James Antill 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FPC meeting Thursday at 2019-07-18 16:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1 on irc.freenode.net. Local time information (via. uitime): ================= Day: Thursday ================== 2019-07-18 09:00 PDT US/Pacific 2019-07-18 12:00 EDT --> US/Eastern <-- 2019-07-18 16:00 UTC UTC 2019-07-18 17:00 BST Europe/London 2019-07-18 18:00 CEST Europe/Berlin 2019-07-18 18:00 CEST Europe/Paris 2019-07-18 21:30 IST Asia/Calcutta ---------------- New Day: Friday ----------------- 2019-07-19 00:00 HKT Asia/Hong_Kong 2019-07-19 00:00 +08 Asia/Singapore 2019-07-19 01:00 JST Asia/Tokyo 2019-07-19 02:00 AEST Australia/Brisbane Links to all tickets below can be found at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting = Followups = #topic #902 Cleanup & enhance spec files .fpc 902 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/902 #topic #904 Caret versioning .fpc 904 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/904 = New business = #topic #907 Which %__foo macros for executables are acceptable? .fpc 907 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/907 #topic #909 Suggest that linting/measuring-coverage is not for %check .fpc 909 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/909 #topic #914 Automatic R runtime dependencies .fpc 914 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/914 = Open Floor = For more complete details, please visit each individual ticket. The report of the agenda items can be found at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting If you would like to add something to this agenda, you can: * Reply to this e-mail * File a new ticket at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee * E-mail me directly * Bring it up at the end of the meeting, during the open floor topic. Note that added topics may be deferred until the following meeting.

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Should %license always be installed in /usr/share/licenses?
by Miro Hrončok 11 Jul '19

11 Jul '19

Hi. An interesting question popped out during a PR review [1]. Should %license always be specified relative and installed to /usr/share/licenses like this: %license LICENSE Or is it totally OK to specify it absolutely like this: %license %{_whatnot}/%{name}/LICENSE ? Technically, both is possible and behaves like %doc. [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python38/pull-request/33 Thanks, -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok

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Summary/Minutes from today's FPC Meeting (2019-07-11 16:00 - 17:15 UTC)
by James Antill 11 Jul '19

11 Jul '19

====================== #fedora-meeting-1: fpc ====================== Meeting started by geppetto at 16:00:18 UTC. The full logs are available at https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2019-07-11/fpc.2019-07-1… . Meeting summary --------------- * Roll Call (geppetto, 16:00:19) * Schedule (geppetto, 16:07:08) * LINK: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/packaging@lists.fedoraproject… (geppetto, 16:07:11) * LINK: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/6100 (Rombobeorn, 16:08:11) * Check upstream tarball signatures (geppetto, 16:09:22) * LINK: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/836 (mhroncok, 16:11:04) * ACTION: Check upstream tarball signatures (+1:6, 0:0, -1:0) (geppetto, 16:17:14) * #900 Proposed Packaging Guidelines (geppetto, 16:17:39) * All the official policies should be somewhat obvious due to their category, we'll continue to do what we can to make it obvious what packages should do. (geppetto, 16:33:44) * #902 Cleanup & enhance spec files (geppetto, 16:33:51) * Propose guideline changes we can vote on, if those pass then it's fine to do scripted cleanups (geppetto, 16:44:11) * #904 Caret versioning (geppetto, 16:44:22) * ACTION: tibbs will add list of things that need testing. (geppetto, 17:00:45) * In general we seem fine on adding this after F31 GA, and probably even F31 branch. (geppetto, 17:01:10) * Open Floor (geppetto, 17:06:02) Meeting ended at 17:12:51 UTC. Action Items ------------ * Check upstream tarball signatures (+1:6, 0:0, -1:0) * tibbs will add list of things that need testing. Action Items, by person ----------------------- * tibbs * tibbs will add list of things that need testing. * **UNASSIGNED** * Check upstream tarball signatures (+1:6, 0:0, -1:0) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * geppetto (71) * tibbs (66) * mhroncok (29) * ignatenkobrain (17) * zodbot (16) * decathorpe (13) * Rombobeorn (8) * limburgher (3) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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