Hello, I'm the maintainer of 'mariadb' & 'mariadb-connector-c' packages (rpms) and also 'modules/mariadb'. Recently, I discovered a 'modules/mariadb-connector-c' exists. Created by my colleague years ago, discontinued in 2017. This is correct - as we don't want it to build (anymore, most likely ever). There is 'mariadb-connector-c' in base Fedora (rpms namespace) and it should do all the job anyone would need. But I got this e-mail, saying it was recently built again: [1] [2] [3] [4] And it is very strange: 1) I don't know why I received the email (even though I'm glad I did). I'm not a maintainer of the 'modules/mariadb-connector-c', nor watching it (AFAIK). 2) I don't understand how the most recent release of the 'mariadb-connector-c' was built, since in the 'modules/mariadb-connector-c' repo, there's only versions from 2017 and last commits 2-3 years ago; but new release (rebuild from the same branch but newer (rpms/...) commit *REQUIRES* new (modules/...) commit ). 3) In all history of MBS [5] there are only 2 builds of 'modules/mariadb-connector-c', #1462 & #1463. No recent build, no nothing. 3) It is tagged for the LibreOffice. I'd like to know *why* anyone would like to build 'mariadb-connector-c' themselves instead of using the one available. 4) I tried to search for the "libreoffice" module, but haven't found any ! [6] At this point, I have no idea what's going on. The only hint is a LibreOffice *flatpack* [7] which mentions 'mariadb-connector-c' [8] I haven't met flatpack before, so I don't know how it works (and what's it good for), but still: A) I don't see the need to build the package again B) I don't understand why it would disguise so much as a Fedora Module. That would be really confusing and misleading, if that would be the case. The nick in Subject is the author of the KOJI build and a maintainer of the 'flatpaks/libreoffice'. Hope he may confirm / disprove that he's responsible for the build and some rel-eng or infrastructure member would explain why it behave so weird ... [1] mbs/mbs.fedoraproject.org's mariadb-connector-c-3.1.7-1.module_f31+8201+43134e23 completed [2] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1470803 [3] mbs/mbs.fedoraproject.org's mariadb-connector-c-3.1.7-1.module_f31+8207+96410d98 completed [4] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1471050 [5] https://release-engineering.github.io/mbs-ui/modules [6] https://src.fedoraproject.org/projects/modules/%2A [7] https://src.fedoraproject.org/flatpaks/libreoffice [8] https://src.fedoraproject.org/flatpaks/libreoffice/blob/master/f/libreoffice.yaml#_173 -- Michal Schorm Software Engineer Core Services - Databases Team Red Hat -- _______________________________________________ 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
