On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 16:39 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 14:30 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >> I've added Python Virtual Provides to the list of draft guidelines. > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Python > > [snip] > >> The motivation for this is that David Malcolm (dmalcolm) wrote a proof > >> of concept script to show how easy it would be to extract egg dependency > >> information as part of the rpm build process. > > > > To help maintain the sanity of everyone building packages, can't we just > > auto-generate these? I know there's the old patch floating around > > somewhere for python deps that we should be using but haven't yet > > instituted. And extending that to work with eggs also seems to make > > sense. And then we avoid everyone having to add stuff to their spec > > files > > > Err, that's why I said the motivation for this was that Dave Malcolm > wrote a script to do that for eggs :-) If it's being done automatically, it's not really packaging policy -- it's just part of things working :) Jeremy -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
