Am 17.02.22 um 13:52 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen:
The working assumption has been that the Fedora package is already cleaned up and dependencies are there because the main packager thought they were needed. I and other EPEL packagers have spent enough time 'cleaning up' a package and then getting yelled at by the main packager that I broke something important and they wanted me to not touch their package anymore. [Heck we have caused a couple of people to quit Fedora completely over the years because of this.]
I'm sorry that you had that experience however mine has been quite different: When worked on getting certbot in EPEL 8 I had to branch quite a few (2-3 dozen) packages and while doing that I added test suites and gpg verification if possible.
I never got any angry responses - maybe that is because Python packagers in Fedora are pretty nice people (we have Miro after all ;-). The key I think is to submit pull requests first and wait for some time. I have to admit that I got frustrated more than once by inactive packagers but as far as I can see there is no better alternative. Pushing stuff with provenpackager powers without PR is certainly quite toxic.
Anyway: I hope you'll have a better experience with EPEL 9 :-) Felix _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
