[Bug 2165381] Review Request: ancient - Modern decompressor for old data compression formats

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2165381



--- Comment #4 from Charles R. Anderson <cra@xxxxxx> ---
Thank you for the review.  I have updated the package:

Spec URL: https://cra.fedorapeople.org/ancient/ancient.spec
SRPM URL: https://cra.fedorapeople.org/ancient/ancient-2.0.0-2.fc37.src.rpm

(In reply to Benson Muite from comment #2)
> a) There is a test script, but upstream has not included any test data.
> Maybe this could be added to the repo?
> c) Is it possible to add a smoke test, for example 
> ancient --help

I added a test that verifies ancient decompressing Source0's gzip compression.

> b) Assume none of the algorithms are under a patent?

I'm not a patent attorney, but I assume so--these are either ancient file
formats or formats that are already implemented in other parts of Fedora. 
Nothing here is called out as explicitly prohibited on
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packaged/
or the linked documents therein.  I'm not sure what else is expected of a
packager on this point, especially considering that doing a patent review could
actually increase legal exposure.

> d) devel package does not need a license file as it will be pulled in from
> libs package

Removed.

(In reply to Ben Beasley from comment #3)
> Please don’t glob over a shared directory; see
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_explicit_lists.
>   %{_bindir}/ancient

Done.

> > a) There is a test script, but upstream has not included any test data. Maybe this could be added to the repo?
> 
> Considering that this tool is intended for files from the 1980’s-1990’s, I
> strongly suspect that the test data is not included because it is all
> non-free.

Agreed.  Hopefully the gzip test I implemented is sufficient.


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