Re: EPEL Steering Committee Request: Allow minizip-compat

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On Monday, 04 November 2019 at 23:38, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 5:26 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > So I started to review
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1767883 which is a package
> > which is normally in the zlib package but has been commented out from
> > shipping on RHEL-8. It is needed for chromium and other items so Tom
> > Callaway has made up a package for it. However the naming guidelines
> > for packages have deprecated -compat packages even though this seems
> > to have been added after that rule was put in place.
> >
> > In reviewing the package the name was the only thing which came up and
> > i would like to give it a pass versus having it renamed to minizip1.2
> > (or better yet libminizip since all it is a library) untl the upstream
> > zlib package is named that way also.
> >
> 
> Honestly, it should probably be fixed in Fedora to be minizip1 /
> minizip1-devel instead of minizip-compat / minizip-compat-devel...
> 
> But I guess that as long as it's not that in Fedora, it's fine to be
> not it in EPEL...

I'd use the correct name and add Provides with what's in Fedora to
be removed when Fedora package is renamed. I don't see a good reason
not to do it properly when you have a chance. Dropping Provides: is
easier than package renaming.

Regards,
Dominik
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