https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1366411 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx --- Comment #13 from Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx> --- (In reply to Jason Tibbitts from comment #9) > I'm sorry, what's not transparent? This is just a package. There's not > currently anything actually in it. It's gone through the proper review > procedure. It's intended for future use, so we don't keep having to mess > with redhat-rpm-config, which is rather more complicated than it needs to be > for something that drops in some macro files. Plus it has a rather odd > versioning mechanism. This gives me one package I can untag if necessary, > without worrying about conflicting with other macro maintenance done by the > RPM maintainers. And without using provenpackager privs to get FPC-approved > macro work done. Um, what? redhat-rpm-config has always been the place to put distro-wide macros in. It *used* to be a crazy mess of patches applied on top of some magic tarball but its trivial to work with now. Yes its versioning is special ... because its a special package, there are no "upstream releases". Distro-wide rpm macro work is something that could maybe use a little bit of review from rpm people, because rpm macros are ... well, I'm sure I dont need to explain that to you. The reason for splitting various language specific items out to different packages is to let the SIGs for those languages work on what they know best and us rpm folks have little to no clue about. It's also possible there are real reasons for creating another macro package for this, but I'm not seeing any of those reasons here, only strange mumbles about redhat-rpm-config maintenance. Moving rpm-related work to another package to basically be able to work behind our back essentially doesn't sound good. Not good at all. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are always notified about changes to this product and component _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list -- package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to package-review-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx