On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 19:20 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > 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 :) > > > The packaging policy portion is: > > * Are Virtual Provides the way to go (I say yes and so far no one's shot > me down :-) I don't really know how else you'd do it... > * What should the virtual provides be named? Bikeshed :-) But the proposal matches what we do for everything else > * Should we do the part where we can only manage to pull Provides out > automatically but not Requires? Obviously it'd be nice if we could get Requires done automatically too, but it doesn't hurt to give the provides until then. > * Should we try harder to make subpackages listed? How so? I might be missing something here but I don't see anything that subpackages are especially relevant for? You mean like if a module is split across subpackages? Jeremy -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
