Re: Planning to start unifying native and mingw packages

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On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 03:57:37PM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> 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 ;)

I don't want to rush into doing that myself in case someone else reading
along is very enthusiastic to do the work themselves ;-P

With regards,
Daniel
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