On 22/08/19 14:44 +0200, Jan Pokorný wrote: > it was brought to my attention that unlike in Fedora, openSUSE has > taken care of the (relatively niche) area of dealing with packages' > entries to what other SW consumes (directly or via transitive chain > of catalogs) from /etc/xml/catalog file: > > https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_XML_Schemas_and_Stylesheets > > What follows is a natural consideration whether it would, for once, > make sense for Fedora to follow this example, for ~3 reasons: > > 0. less imperative, more declarative is issually somewhat more > relaxed at both "produce" and "grok" directions > > 1. it's easy to forget about the removal part when using explicit > procedural form of registering a custom catalog in pre/post > scriptlets (it happened to me with upstream, thanks to the reviewer > for spotting it, and actually also for pointing the openSUSE > advancement in this packaging territory per above) > > 2. unified path for the custom catalogs to allow for immediately > groking the delegations without even reviewing /etc/xml/catalog > file in detail > > 3. sticking with what openSUSE already does means less of a wide > RPM ecosystem fragmentation > > Now, if this received a positive feedback, I am not sure how to > go about rewriting update-xml-catalog executable from scratch > vs. just adopting theirs, regarding proper license compatibility, > attributions, in which package to put it, etc. Also, got to realize, we'd likely want to get rid of explicit invocations of anything since it's a model use case for rpm triggers -- single path that, when changed, will provoke the correct action. > But I guess, that'd be secondary, so what I want to know at this > point is whether: > > - such a packaging related "enablement" would make sense, > with an outlook to eventually (given the proper Fedora > change process if eligible here) mandate the use of this > new mechanism for hooking custom XML catalogs in, > perhaps to the extent that /etc/xml/catalog would be > assumed immutable, with only the pre-delegated catalog > eligible for changes > > - there is a precedent of Fedora adopting parts of openSUSE > packaging practices, like it would be the case here -- Jan (Poki)
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