On Tuesday, 12 November 2019 at 22:07, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 4:03 PM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski > <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, 12 November 2019 at 21:15, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > [...] > > > I agree with Aleksandra here. And we *did* establish that our policy > > > going forward is that we will forbid any default stream from providing > > > non-API content. (Filtered out packages are orthogonal to this.) > > > > What does that even mean? > > > > Modular builds have metadata that can indicate to consumers which > subpackages in this module should be considered "API". If a module > produces a package artifact and does not list it thusly, it is meant > to be treated as an internal implementation detail of the module (and > that the maintainer is not committing to maintaining that particular > package for any purpose other than supporting the API content of this > module). > > We also have "filters" which are intended for allowing module > packagers to build and use build-time-only packages. They are built > and added to the module buildroot as part of the build process, but > they are filtered out so they don't end up in the final composed > repository. (This is useful if, for example, your package used a small > subset of some other package only at build-time and you don't want to > have to maintain that package for everyone in the distro just to build > yours). OK. Let's say one of those is a static library that doesn't get exposed in the final composed repository. Suppose there's a security bug in that exact version but that bug doesn't occur in the traditionally-maintained package in Fedora (perhaps because the vulnerable version was skipped). How do you detect that and know which packages (modules?) need to be rebuilt? Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPM Fusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
