On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 11:34:02AM -0500, Avram Lubkin wrote: > Looks like the dependency generator was turned on in rawhide. Igor has been > making pull releases against packages because this is now creating > duplicate requires for some packages. That would seem reasonable, but he > never pushed the dependency generator to EPEL so packages which maintain a > common spec file across branches require additional logic and it's creating > more work instead of less work. The python-rpm-generators package doesn't > even exist in EPEL. I started looking at what it would take to make it > available, but the script that's used has no documentation and no tests. Well, now that this has been enabled, it is likely that there already are packages which make use of this functionality, and disabling the generator again would break them. So reverting the changes doesn't seem like a good idea. It'd also create even more chaos. > I recommend we revert this to opt-in until a couple loose ends are tied up: > - Tests and a readme file are created for python-rpm-generators > - The functionality is made available in EPEL6 and EPEL7 (opt-in ok) > (Requires python-rpm-generators RPM) Maintaining single-spec compatibility with EPEL is the responsibility of individual package maintainers that desire that. The changes to use the generators are only done in "master", so before merging those changes into the epel branches, the maintainers have the chance to add the necessary conditionals or some other solution. (Alternatively, disabling the generators in that specific package and continuing to use the manual deps is also a valid option.) Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
