On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 08:35:36PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 06:53:30PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 03:37:01PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > It's also that redhat-rpm-config has come far from its humble > > > origins: it originated as a package where Red Hat build > > > policy/configuration is set. Things like vendor name, payload > > > compression etc. But nowadays there are entire ecosystems of utility > > > macros living inside. > > > /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.dwz > > /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.fedora-misc > > /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.fedora-misc-srpm > > /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.forge > > /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.ldc-srpm > > /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.ldconfig > > /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.mono-srpm > > /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.nodejs-srpm > > /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.valgrind-srpm > > /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.vpath > > > > I think some of these should be moved to *-srpm-macros packages. The > > languages already did that (eg. ocaml-srpm-macros). > > We could should move *some* of those out, in particular macros.forge, > but most of the files are really tiny, a few lines excluding comments. > So it probably wouldn't be worth the overhead to create separate > packages for them. I think that keeping them here is the best option. > > So… to to proceed with this? Should proven packagers merge pull requests > that don't have any negative comments? Neal and Tom volunteered help > in the other part of the thread: should they be added as comaintainers? I'd also be happy to help, but that said... I wonder if we couldn't ask the FPC to take it over? Or would that be too slow/too many people to get things done? Just thinking that they should know the pending guidelines and what macros make sense, etc. kevin
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