Re: Packages which use the BuildRoot: directive

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On 07/12/2018 07:45 AM, Miro Hrončok wrote:

> I second that. When we mass filled PRs with python2 related changes it
> was always a Red Hat maintained software, where people were basically
> telling us: "no, we won't accept your PR here, we maintain the specfile
> somewhere else". It was very unpleasant experience and usually such
> maintainers expects us to:
> 
>  1) find their canonical spec file location and figure out what special
> branch we need to apply the patch to
> 
>  2) wait for a new release of their software to happen and specfile
> changes be "backported" into Fedora (sometimes took months)
> 
> Some maintainers were kinder than others, taking the changes and
> applying them in their god-knows-where mainained spec files. Some where
> not.
> 
> We don't need to make the rule less strict, we need to find a way to
> enforce it. The current state (people ignoring this rule) makes
> contributing to Fedora even harder than it already is.

I don't see that there is any way to enforce it. I suppose you could try
and have a hook to detect it, but it could well have false positives and
block legit commits.

Perhaps once we no longer use specs we can solve this. ;)

kevin


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