On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 4:23 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 02:56:59PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
> Congratulations to the last System-Wide Change proposal of F30!
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Replace_Comps_Language_Group_With_Langpacks
>
> == Summary ==
> Language support groups in Comps file will get replaced by langpacks
> package. With this Change we want meta-packages like langpacks-ja to
> also install required fonts and input-methods for the given language.
>
> == Owner ==
> * Name: [[User:petersen| Jens Petersen]]
> * Email: petersen at fedoraproject dot org
> * Name: [[User:pnemade| Parag Nemade]]
> * Email: pnemade at fedoraproject dot org
>
> == Detailed Description ==
> This change will remove the need of having the language specific comps
> groups in Fedora.
>
> We already have ''langpacks-*'' packages in Fedora since F24.
> Currently they are installing language packages for translations,
> dictionaries etc. but not fonts or input-methods. With this Change we
> will try to install fonts and input-methods as well.
> E.g. if you net-install Fedora in Japanese language then installation
> of any base package like libreoffice-core or man-pages are installing
> automatically libreoffice-langpack-ja or man-pages-ja but langpacks-ja
> is not installing any Japanese font or input-method.
> But now with using RPM tags or weak dependencies like Supplements, we
> can get font as well as input-method packages installed as well on the
> system.
> There is no need of language comps groups to exist, they will be
> replaced by langpacks.
>
> This Change is originally submitted at https://pagure.io/i18n/issue/97
>
> == Benefit to Fedora ==
> Users can install complete language support now using langpacks only.
> This will also help to remove the language support groups from the
> comps file.
>
> == Scope ==
> * Proposal owners: Check all langpacks providing packages (like fonts,
> input-methods) add Supplements tag in their SPEC file and build them.
> We will track the progress of this Change in
> [https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/pnemade/langpacks/ Langpacks
> Copr] project.
> * Other developers: To all other developers of packages who provides
> langpacks, they need to add the Supplements tag as given in this
> [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Langpacks Langpacks
> guideline] to each langpack subpackage.
> * Release engineering: none
> * Policies and guidelines: none
Do you plan to remove the comps groups? And if yes, in F30 or later?
Yes, Plan is to remove language support group entries from comps files for F30+. Added same to Scope section of Change page now.
Regards,
Parag
Zbyszek
> == Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
> None.
>
> == How To Test ==
>
> * [[QA:Langpacks]]
>
> == User Experience ==
> Currently users can get complete language support installed only using
> "''dnf group install <lang-support>''" command. After this Change gets
> implemented end users can get language support installed using
> meta-packages "''langpacks-<langcode>"'' only
>
> == Dependencies ==
> No Other Change depend on this.
>
> == Contingency Plan ==
> * Contingency mechanism: If this change is not completed by final
> development freeze then we need to target this for F31. We are just
> proposing to add additional information in langpacks packages that is
> Supplements tag. This should not affect individual langpacks packages
> installation by dnf.
> * Contingency deadline: I don't think we will need anything to revert
> or apply any contingency plan here if this is not completed by beta
> freeze.
> * Blocks release? No
> * Blocks product? N/A
>
> == Documentation ==
> * Need to add about this in the Release notes
>
>
> --
> Ben Cotton
> Fedora Program Manager
> TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
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