I noticed this thread, I develop a personal project where I use about 10
C libraries, I noticed that "glfw", "libsodium" and
"libevent" do not
have their corresponding mingw packages. I was considering trying to
package them but unifying them with the native packages would be better.
Of course, this would put more pressure on the maintainers.
I could however open a PR to add them to the native packages. Do we have
some libraries where this unification is already finished so that I
could take inspiration?
On 24. 8. 2022 16:00, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 03:57:37PM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 3:49 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 10:13:18PM +0100, Sandro Mani wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Following recent discussions and to reduce the maintenance burden, I'm
>>> planning to start merging native and mingw packages. Initially, I'll be
>>> looking at these packages where I maintain both variants:
>> I've done the same with all the mingw packages I maintained just
>> before Fedora 37 branched. So the following native packages now
>> just contain mingw sub-RPMs:
>>
>> libvirt, libvirt-glib, libosinfo, osinfo-db, osinfo-db-tools, gtk-vnc
>>
>> I'm so happy to have reduced this maint burden. I see a few new mingw
>> packages pending in package review and think it'd be nice to first ask
>> the native maintainer to consider unified package, before we approve
>> any new separate mingw packages.
>>
>> Our Mingw packaging guidelines, however, exclusively describe fully
>> separated mingw packages. So if I suggest this to a native package
>> maintainer who is not already familiar with mingw, they would be
>> right to question whether this is a desirable thing.
>>
>> IOW, I think we need to look at getting the mingw packaging docs
>> updated to promote unified packaging as an officially supported
>> (and even preferred) option, alongside separate packaging.
> Sounds great.
> The Packaging Committee is looking forward to your PR ;)
I don't want to rush into doing that myself in case someone else reading
along is very enthusiastic to do the work themselves ;-P
With regards,
Daniel
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Marián Konček