Re: fedora-packager purpose and future

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On 11/7/18 9:22 AM, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> On 05. 09. 18 9:38, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>>
>>
>> Dne 4.9.2018 v 21:46 Rex Dieter napsal(a):
>>> Ben Rosser wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 2:59 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Vít Ondruch wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This is a bit unfortunate considering this is package
>>>>>> every Fedora packager has to have installed
>>>>> I don't think that's true, can you explain?
>>>> Well, the "join the package collection maintainers" document
>>>> explicitly tells new packagers to install fedora-packager, because it
>>>> will "bring in everything necessary for general packaging work".
>>> Sorry, I was going off the $SUBJECT that referened "fedora-package",
>>> which
>>> didn't exist as far as I could tell.  *fedora-packager*, yes indeed.
>>
>> Sorry for the typo and confusion. I was speaking about fedora-packager
>> indeed.
>>
>> And people need it not just because the "join ..." page suggests that,
>> but there appears to be circular dependency between fedpkg and
>> fedora-packager, presumably because fedora-pacakger ships some
>> configuration files for koji, etc.
>>
>> I think that the idea behind this package was to have everything
>> possibly needed by Fedora packager installed by single package. But when
>> it is not maintained, then it somehow looses its point.
> 
> I'd like to revisit this discussion.
> 
> Can we get rid of that package or make it maintained again?

As far as I can tell it is maintained. After that last thread I talked
with the maintainers and they merged / answered all ourstanding PR's as
far as I know.

If there's more to do, PR's welcome I am sure.

kevin



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