On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 09:09:30PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently seen a package that was imported into Fedora without a package > review. I've noticed this because the packages doesn't even install and I > wanted to check if this could have been caught in the package review but I > couldn't find it, so I've checked the fedora-scm-requests ticket. > > The ticket at fedora-scm-requests was created with exception=true. I am not > going to link to it, because I am not here to point fingers. I am just > genuinely curious. > > According to https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/ReviewGuidelines/#_package_review_process > we have 3 kinds of exceptions: > > - FPC grants an explicit exemption from the process... > - The package is being created so that multiple versions of the same package > can coexist in the distribution... > - The package exists in both Fedora and RHEL, but the packager wants to ship > it in EPEL under an alternative name... > > In those cases, the packager requests the repo with --exception, makes sense. > > However, who checks if the flag was used according to the rules? Because > apparently, is seems that nobody does. Is it expected that we are all > responsible people who would not abuse this simply to avoid package reviews? The scm admin processing the request should check it. :( Perhaps this was simply missed and/or perhaps the tool could be better about showing when a ticket is an exception. ;( Do note that we are working on automating most of this away. If/when that happens the exceptions would then be... exceptions. (ie, the automation would refuse to process them and ask a human to do so, unless we can come up with a way to check these cases in an unattended way). kevin
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