[Fedora-packaging] private-shared-object-provides in python packages

[Parag N(पराग़)]

Hi,

2010/9/26 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 07:33:40PM +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
>> Hi,
>>    Do .so files installed in %{python_sitearch} MUST be filtered? I
>> see one reference at
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_Rpmlint_issues#private-shared-object-provides
>> but the filtering policy is not added to Python packaging guidelines.
>>    Also, why rpmlint complains it as warning and not an error? e.g.
>> one case I see is
>> pyorbit.x86_64: W: private-shared-object-provides
>> /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/ORBit.so ORBit.so()(64bit)
>> A shared object soname provides is provided by a file in a path from which
>> other packages should not directly load shared objects from.  Such shared
>> objects should thus not be depended on and they should not result in provides
>> in the containing package.  Get rid of the provides if appropriate, for
>> example by filtering it out during build.  Note that in some cases this may
>> require disabling rpmbuild's internal dependency generator.
>>
> Thanks for bringing this up!
>
> I was looking at this for a package a few weeks ago and found that this
> guideline was in the normal packaging guidelines:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering
>
> but I did not remember approving it.  It was moved into the main packaging
> Guidelines when spot made the changes that moved the backlog of approved
> guidelines from the Todo list into the main guidelines.  I found where we
> had discussed it the first time:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Minutes/20090602#t12:39
>
> but after that meeting we (FPC) didn't meet for a while due to different
> people being on vacation and thus not being able to make quorum.  Meeting
> logs are not present during this time so I can't tell if I was on vacation
> and it was approved or if it got moved into the main Guidelines by mistake.
>
> This guideline would impact what we do for filtering private python provides
> as it specifies:
>
> """
> MUST: Packages must not provide RPM dependency information when that
> information is not global in nature, [...]
> MUST: When filtering automatically generated RPM dependency information, the
> filtering system implemented by Fedora must be used [...]
> """
>
>
Thanks for this information. Will this be discussed in next FPC
meeting and added to python packaging guidelines page?

Regards,
Parag.