Re: Planning to start unifying native and mingw packages

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On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 3:49 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 10:13:18PM +0100, Sandro Mani wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Following recent discussions and to reduce the maintenance burden, I'm
> > planning to start merging native and mingw packages. Initially, I'll be
> > looking at these packages where I maintain both variants:
>
> I've done the same with all the mingw packages I maintained just
> before Fedora 37 branched. So the following native packages now
> just contain mingw sub-RPMs:
>
>  libvirt, libvirt-glib, libosinfo, osinfo-db, osinfo-db-tools, gtk-vnc
>
> I'm so happy to have reduced this maint burden. I see a few new mingw
> packages pending in package review and think it'd be nice to first ask
> the native maintainer to consider unified package, before we approve
> any new separate mingw packages.
>
> Our Mingw packaging guidelines, however, exclusively describe fully
> separated mingw packages.  So if I suggest this to a native package
> maintainer who is not already familiar with mingw, they would be
> right to question whether this is a desirable thing.
>
> IOW, I think we need to look at getting the mingw packaging docs
> updated to promote unified packaging as an officially supported
> (and even preferred) option, alongside separate packaging.

Sounds great.
The Packaging Committee is looking forward to your PR ;)

Fabio
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