[Bug 652083] New: Rename Request: racket - A Scheme-based programming language and environment

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Summary: Rename Request: racket - A Scheme-based programming language and environment

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652083

           Summary: Rename Request: racket - A Scheme-based programming
                    language and environment
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: fedora at michelsylvain.info
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: notting at redhat.com, fedora-package-review at redhat.com
   Estimated Hours: 0.0
    Classification: Fedora


Spec URL: http://salimma.fedorapeople.org/specs/funpl/racket.spec
SRPM URL:
http://salimma.fedorapeople.org/specs/funpl/racket-5.0.2-1.fc14.src.rpm
Description:
Racket, previously PLT Scheme, is an extensible, Scheme-based language
with an interactive mode that encourages experimentation, allowing the
composition of larger systems from small building blocks. It features
native-code JIT compilation and optional static typing.

This is a rename request; PLT Scheme was renamed to Racket as of version 5.

Notes:
- the previous package uses unversioned Provides: and Obsoletes:, which is
problematic when it comes to upgrade paths. The racket package has versioned
Provides: and Obsoletes: only for plt-scheme, as:
a) a versioned obsolete won't trump an unversioned provides
b) the names that plt-scheme obsoletes have not been in use for quite a few
   releases; therefore the upgrade path is not supported anymore

- PLT Scheme, and now Racket, has always bundled several internal libraries.
The
  previous maintainer omitted getting this cleared by FESCO. See the
  Provides: bundled(...) lines in the spec file.

I'll be requesting an exemption from FESCO; either they grant permission, or
we'd have to retire plt-scheme without any replacement. Upstream developers
(Sam TH, Eli Barzilay & co.) are quite adamant that ripping out the libraries
they bundled is not advisable.

In case of the latter, racket will be published on my personal repository.

This packaging installs a MIME type for Racket's new recommended file extension
(.rkt) and set up the DrRacket desktop file to declare that the application can
open text/x-racketsrc (Racket) and text/x-scheme (Scheme) files.

Note: rpmlint on the generated binaries will create a ton of errors and
warnings. Most of them are of these forms and are false positives:

- unexpanded-macros: this is due to a lot of SRFI files (Scheme Request for
Implementation; i.e. libraries) having '%' as their first characters
- wrong-script-interpreter: this is because Scheme uses #! to specify language
standard, not to specify an interpreter. e.g. #!r6rs
- non-executable-script: likewise.
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