On 21 January 2018 at 15:54, Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tomasz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As preface some oneliner result:
>
> 8) Why we have %{centos} %ifings? Theoretically Centos is EL derivate up to
> ABI level so all this should be:
>
> a) removed
> b) replaced by %{el6} and %{el7} (and if it is anything older .. remove)
> c) if ContOS guys are using Fedora gir repos to preserve some CentOS
> specific changes they should move all this stuff to own git (create project
> on github it is not rocket science). IMO definitely %{centos} is next
> candidate to remove from master branch.
>
It might help to do some further research before speculating. The
CentOS 'guys' do maintain everything in their repo. You are somehow
assuming that other maintainers only maintain packages in Fedora for
Fedora. They don't. They may use the same spec with slight changes in
all kinds of subprojects and tools, and Fedora is just yet another
operating system to them. So I would go search for all kinds of things
like mageia, suse, even debian in the spec files as they may show up
because the maintainer wants that spec file to work elsewhere also.
The issue is that to a various developers, the package is just a step
they need to fill out to get the package into Fedora, CentOS, RHEL,
Mageia, etc. They pull in what they want to make it work and could
give a care if it is readable to anyone else. They know it has to pass
some rules, but beyond that anything that causes them more headaches
like extra branching, etc is just a reason to tell the person who is
pushing it to go jump in a lake. It has nothing to do with the EPEL
project, the CentOS project, RHEL, or anything else. It has to do with
the developer/maintainer of the package getting what they want for the
least amount of effort because they have 10k other things they MUST
work on instead.
Until you, Igor and others start engaging the maintainers to
understand why doing those things solve problems for them.. and why
they aren't moving to newer tools.. this is not going to end well.
>
> Next will try to have closer look on %{rhel}, %{epel} and %{centos} %ifings
> to form more and/or more precise conclusions/observations.
>
> kloczek
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