[Fedora-join] Re: Help with Nyxt and libfixposix packaging

On Wed, May 05, 2021 12:24:47 +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: Hi Pierre, If you are not a package maintainer already, please follow the steps here to file a new package review ticket: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers Packages reach rawhide as soon as the maintainer builds them in rawhide (there may be some lag while the mirrors sync etc.). You can add packages to current Fedora releases also. Most of us add the package to rawhide and both the currently supported releases (if/where possible). The best/cleanest way is to first package libfixposix (and any other dependencies) and go up the "dependency tree" until all the packages needed by Nyxt are in Fedora, and then include Nyxt. This ensures that all the dependencies are treated as individual packages, with their own life-cycles, and prevents multiple copies of the same libraries being strewn about in the Fedora packages. You *could* bundle libfixposix---bundling is no longer forbidden by the packaging guidelines[1]---but as you'll see, it is strongly advised against and should be used only as a last resort. Hope that helps. [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#bundling -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Time zone: Europe/London