Re: EPEL Steering Committee Request: Allow minizip-compat

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On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 06:02, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>

Thanks. Tom went with minizip1.2 and made some other changes and I
have hit the + button.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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