On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 12:32:11AM +0100, Henrik Nordström wrote: > I recently took ownership of Radare2 after it was orphaned, > unfortunately unknowing of the current turmult in the Radare2 project. > > Now realizing that it has a dependent Fedora package Cutter (cutter-re) > which is at the edge of this turmult. And pushing an update of Radare2 > will break Cutter. > > It is not a simple clean-cut update to keep the cutter-re package alive > as Cutter has split from the Radare2 project, and in the process forked > Radare2 as Rizin. Updating of Cutter would require Rizin to be packaged > for Fedora. > > The Radare2 project in turn have forked Cutter as R2Cutter. But > R2Cutter is not Cutter. And Rizin is not Radare2. > > What is the proper action to deal with situations like this? Seems to be a tough call. There's a lot of activity going on in both projects. There's more commits in rizin, but many of of them are related to the renaming, so that doesn't matter much. (Many commits are cherry picked between the projects too.) There seem to be many good technical ideas in the rizin fork (e.g. the switch to meson instead of a custom build system, removal of unstable code), which would make packaging easier. But in such splits it's always hard to say which fork will "win" (or even if they don't both die...). I agree that packaging both doesn't make sense. My gut feeling is that it's much better to keep the graphical interface than not, i.e. either cutter or r2cutter should stay in the distro. The decision about the graphical interface could even determine which fork is followed. It'd be nice to get more info from the people involved. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
