Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
Hi,
Toshio asked me to write up a proposal for clarification of the
removal of pre-built binaries. I came up with two proposals. I'd like
to have them considered and voted separately.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Removal_of_pre-built_binaries
Any comments, suggestions welcome.
Hmm, both proposals are causing me head-aches, because they are trying
to extend the FPG to cover topics this FPG was trying to _intentionally_
leave open.
Let me try to elaborate: This section is aiming at prohibiting shipping
prebuilt _Linux_ binaries (applications and libraries). It doesn't aim
at prohibiting shipping prebuild "other binaries", such as package
documentation, images or movies or sound files.
A requirement to rebuild the later has never existed in Fedora.
They should be "rebuildable", if appropriate/feasible/neccessary for
proper operation, but this was essentially left to the discretion of
individual packagers and individual packages' demands
That said, if there is something which I consider to be in need of
further refinement, then its the definition of "binary" as being used in
this section of the FPG.
Ralf
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