On Wed, Jan 1, 2020, 15:51 Mattia Verga via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The `peek` package has been approved in Fedora repositories [1], but it
doesn't even start without ffmpeg installed [2], which is not
distributed in Fedora repositories (but is available in rpmfusion):
$ peek
Error: Child process exited with code 1
Unable to create default screen recorder.
The peek specfile contains a `Recommends: ffmpeg >= 3`, which is rather
confusing... I think this package should never have passed the review
process! It should really stay in rpmfusion repository.
Is this something allowed? Should I file a ticket against the package or
against fedora-infra to suggest its retirement?
Requiring or even Recommending or Suggesting packages that are not satisfiable from the fedora repositories is definitely not allowed (there's a section in the Packaging Guidelines about this). Whether it is enough to remove the "Recommends" on ffmpeg from the package or if it has to be retired and / or obsoleted with fedora-obsolete-packages is something I don't know. So definitely file a ticket about this.
Fabio
Mattia
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1709029
[2] https://github.com/phw/peek/issues/485
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