Hello packagers,
the Fedora Packaging Committee has been asked to send summaries of changes in
the Fedora Packaging Guidelines. Here is my attempt to do that. Since this
hasn't been done in years, this first announcement sets the boundary of what to
announce somewhat arbitrarily. I will try to followup on this announcement in
the future once there is something new to announce.
Here are the noteworthy "recent" changes, newest to oldest (more or less):
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Perl packages are no longer required to have:
Requires: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo $version))
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Perl/#_versioned_module_compat_requires_or_perl_libs
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/1242
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New section: Ansible Collection Packaging Guidelines
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Ansible_collections/
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/1201
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Rust packages are no longer required to have:
ExclusiveArch: %{rust_arches}
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Rust/
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/1222
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GAP packaging guidelines have been updated, packages MUST use:
ExclusiveArch: %{gap_arches} (noarch)
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/GAP/
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/1211
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Packages are told not to conditionalize Sources definitions
(e.g. on %fedora or %rhel).
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/SourceURL/#_do_not_conditionalize_sources
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/1163
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Packagers SHOULD NOT simply glob everything under a shared directory.
E.g. this SHOULD NOT be used in %files:
%{_bindir}/*
%{_datadir}/*
%{_includedir}/*
%{_mandir}/*
%{_docdir}/*
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_explicit_lists
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/1160
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Packages MUST use the SPDX license identifiers in the License tag.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/LicensingGuidelines/#_valid_license_short_names
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/1142
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Python packages SHOULD undefine macros if they need to remove some default
flags from Python shebangs.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Python/#_shebangs
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/1191
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Java packages MUST use:
ExclusiveArch: %{java_arches}
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Java/#_architecture_support
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/1187
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I've decided to end here. If you think I've omitted something important, let me
know.
--
Miro Hrončok
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Phone: +420777974800
IRC: mhroncok
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