On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 4:05 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "rust-sevctl" was added to Fedora recently. It contains a single > binary (/usr/bin/sevctl). I think the fact that it happens to have > been written in the Rust language is immaterial and the package should > have been called "sevctl". > > Anyway the packager points me to the guidelines: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Rust/ > > and with a strict reading of them, it does indeed seem that > "rust-sevctl" is the required name (since the package is a "crate"). > But it's not a library, so this seems ... unnecessary? We have plenty > of programs written in C which aren't called c-foo. > > NB: I appreciate that this package has now already been added to > Fedora and changing package names is a pain, so this is NOT a request > to change the name of this existing package. Also this package > already "Provides: sevctl" so it's not really an issue. Note that the package containing the binary does not Provide "sevctl", it **is actually named sevctl** ("%package -n %{crate}"). However, I agree with you that it would make sense to allow the "plain" (no "rust-" prefix) source package name for crates that only provide a binary but no library interface. It is possible to do this manually (see i3status-rs, zola, squeekboard, stratisd, etc.) but rust2rpm does not support this case. It should not be hard to detect the "binary but no library" case in rust2rpm and generate a package with source name "%{crate}" instead of "rust-%{crate}". Amending the Packaging Guidelines would probably amount to changing only once sentence, as well. Fabio _______________________________________________ packaging mailing list -- packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to packaging-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
