[Bug 2343235] Review Request: wcurl - A simple wrapper around curl to easily download files

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2343235



--- Comment #3 from Man2Dev@xxxxxxxxx ---
(In reply to Ben Beasley from comment #2)
> A few quick preliminary findings before I go through the whole fedora-review
> template.
> 
> ----
> 
> You have (accidentally, I think) put everything into a subpackage called
> wcurl-wcurl.
> 
> Try omitting
> 
>   %package %{name}
>   Summary:        %{summary}
>   
>   %description %{name} %{_description}
> 
> and changing
> 
>   %files %{name}
> 
> to
> 
>   %files
> 
> so that everything is associated with the base wcurl package.
> 
> ----
> 
> The package doesn’t actually contain /usr/bin/wcurl. Upstream doesn’t have a
> build system (since this is just a shell-script wrapper around curl), but
> you still have to install something.
> 
> Also, man pages need to be installed in a standard location, not as generic
> documentation; see
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_manpages.
> 
> Try this:
> 
>   %install
>   install -t '%{buildroot}%{_bindir}' -D -p wcurl
>   install -t '%{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1' -D -m 0644 -p wcurl.1
> 
> Remove this from %files:
> 
>   %doc %{name}.1
> 
> …and add these:
> 
>   %{_bindir}/wcurl
>   %{_mandir}/man1/wcurl.1*
> 
> ----
> 
> You don’t need these:
> 
>   BuildRequires:  bash
>   Requires:       bash
> 
> The shell script actually has
> 
>   #!/bin/sh
> 
> so it just requires a POSIX shell, not bash in particular. You can rely on
> that (and, indeed, bash itself) being present in the buildroot, and once you
> actually install the script properly in /usr/bin, you’ll find that the
> dependency on /usr/bin/sh is automatically generated based on the shebang
> line.
> 
> ----
> 
> Arguably, AUTHORS would be better considered as an additional LICENSE file
> (%license) rather than a generic documentation file (%doc), since it’s
> referenced from the copyright statement in the LICENSE file text.
> 
> ----
> 
> Please do not include an Epoch tag in a new package! Use these only when
> absolutely necessary.
> 
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Versioning/
> #_epoch_tag
> 
> ----
> 
> You don’t have to number the sole Source; you can write "Source:" instead of
> "Source0:". The exception is if you plan to build this for EPEL8 from the
> same spec file.
> 
> ----
> 
> The description starts with a lower-case letter, which looks like an
> accident, and unnecessarily repeats the summary. Consider dropping the
> %_description macro (since you aren’t going to have any subpackages with
> repeated descriptions) and just writing this:
> 
>   %description
>   %{summary}.
> 
> ----
> 
> The License needs to be a valid SPDX expression. Write "curl", not "Curl".
> See https://spdx.org/licenses/curl.html and
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/allowed-licenses/.
> 
> ----
> 
> This is not wrong:
> 
>   %autosetup -p1 -n %{name}-%{version}
> 
> …but -n %{name}-%{version} is the default, so you can omit it.
> 
> ----
> 
> Upstream includes tests that don’t require network access, and you should be
> able run them, except that the shunit2 package in Fedora is too old.
> 
> I filed bug 2343252 and opened
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/shunit2/pull-request/1, but for now
> 
> Still, you can add:
> 
>   # Requires shunit2 2.1.8, but we have 2.1.6.
>   # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2343252
>   %bcond tests 0
> 
> and
> 
>   %if %{with tests}
>   BuildRequires:  shunit2
>   %endif
> 
> and in %check:
> 
>   %if %{with tests}
>   PATH="${PATH}:%{buildroot}%{_bindir}" ./tests/tests.sh
>   %endif
> 
> and then (I confirmed by testing) you will be ready to run the tests later,
> if and when my PR is merged, plus you will have documented why you are not
> doing so now.

Thank you so much for your helpful guidance. I apologize for the oversights;
all the mentioned fixes have been applied.
Spec URL:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/man2dev/wcurl/srpm-builds/08591366/wcurl.spec
SRPM URL:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/man2dev/wcurl/srpm-builds/08591366/wcurl-2024.12.08-1.src.rpm


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