Hi Robin, "Robin Opletal" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue Dec 8, 2020 at 8:17 PM CET, Dan Čermák wrote: >> Hi Robin, > > Hi Dan, > >> BuildRequires: golang($url/$owner/$pkg) >> indicates a dependent package that must be available in Fedora. It is >> actually not a macro, it's just a naming convention for golang packages >> (more specifically, this is a capability that golang packages provide). >> Thus we would be free to change the naming of github.com/creack/pty >> to fancy-golang-github-creack-pty (just a ridiculous example) while not >> having to touch our packages at all, as long as it would still provide >> golang(github.com/creack/pty). > > That makes sense perfect sense to me now - thanks for the explanation. I > will look into how this could then be done > > May I ask if bundling the dependencies in this case would be a good > idea, as even the used libraries are often tagged on a commit for each > aerc release? Bundling is generally discouraged in Fedora, so unless there are really compelling reasons (e.g. there's hundreds of dependencies or aerc does not work with the unbundled go package), you should try to unbundle everything as much as possible. Cheers, Dan
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