Re: Reviewing a package with an rpmfusion dependency

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On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 21:53 -0600, Jerry James wrote:
> I was just looking at reviewing this package:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1684950
> 
> It is a Go wrapper around ffprobe, which is in the ffmpeg package,
> which is in rpmfusion-free.  The package can be built without
> ffprobe,
> but cannot be used without it. 

Some time ago it was forbidden by package guidelines , packages that
depends exclusively on 3rd party repos , now I'm not sure . 

>  The spec file contains this:
> 
> # We can't have a hard dependency because patents
> Recommends:     ffmpeg
> 
> Really, this package should have "Requires: ffmpeg", because it
> cannot
> be used at all without ffprobe.  So I think this package should not
> be
> in Fedora, but in rpmfusion instead, and that the review request
> should be denied.
> 
> Thoughts?
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> Jerry James
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