HEADUP for all PEAR packages

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Oct 24 21:20:40 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 09:02 +0200, Remi Collet wrote:
> Le 24/10/2012 00:04, Adam Williamson a écrit :
> 
> > Would it be super-hard to just write a bot that does PEAR package builds
> > and updates? That seems like it'd mostly solve the problem.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> pear make-rpm-spec foo-1.2.3.tgz
> rpmbuild -ba foo.spec
> 
> 
> Yes, this is mostly automatic, but remember the packager really do much
> work (license review, bundled lib, test, QA, ...)
> 
> And often, the review can take... some time...

Well sure, but that only affects initial submission, not update. It
seemed the complaint was both that some PEAR modules aren't in Fedora at
all, *and* that what is in Fedora is often out-of-date. At least the
second problem seems reasonably solve-able.
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