state of fedora-review?

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Hi,

I am wondering about the state of the "fedora-review" package. It seems to be
a pretty important package to ensure new stuff adhers to the latest Fedora
packaging policy.

When I ran "fedora-review" I noticed that it was clearly not updated for some
time: There where outdated points about bundled libraries (nowadays without
special FPC exception), a warning about an unnecessary "gcc" build requirement
and many outdated links.

Well, it turns out fedora-review fails to build from source since July 2018
[3] (last successful koji build was in March 2018). I think at least some
things are fixed upstream [4] but the RPM package was never updated.


Is fedora-review still the preferred tool to do package reviews?


Background:
In the last weeks I spent a bit of time checking the review requests for hcc
[1] and hip [2] which form an important part of AMD's "rocm" stack. These
packages are "special snowflakes" in a sense that they are compilers/compiler
wrappers with all the shenanigans this involves (bundled llvm, explicit lib
dependencies, even dependencies on static libraries).

Approving these libraries would require ignoring quite a few rpmlint
errors/warnings and I don't feel confident in doing so if the fedora-review
tool is obviously outdated.
(Btw: I'd highly appreciate if someone could look at the hcc/hip review
requests. These packages would enable "open source machine learning" in Fedora
and IMHO that area fits Fedora's mission pretty well.)


Thank you very much,
Felix

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1545479
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1668010
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1603956
[4] https://pagure.io/FedoraReview
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