Hello,

As many of you are probably well aware, thanks to Jason Tibbitts of the FPC, the current Fedora MinGW packaging guidelines [1] were recently amended [2] to also allow the source packages be named mingw- (as opposed to mingw32-, what we've used so far) but keep the binary package names the same: mingw32-. Such a change would make it easier to transition to the mingw-w64 toolchain in the future.

The new guidelines were put to test by Thomas Sailer's two new packages. When importing the new packages, he noticed that the new naming scheme causes the debuginfo package to be named mingw-libfoo-debuginfo versus the old mingw32-libfoo-debuginfo.

This is what we had before: mingw32-libfoo-...src.rpm mingw32-libfoo-...noarch.rpm mingw32-libfoo-debuginfo-...noarch.rpm

This is currently happening: mingw-libfoo-...src.rpm mingw32-libfoo-...noarch.rpm mingw-libfoo-debuginfo-...noarch.rpm

Would it be better like this? mingw-libfoo-...src.rpm mingw32-libfoo-...noarch.rpm mingw32-libfoo-debuginfo-...noarch.rpm

Does anyone have opinions whether it would be better to name the -debuginfo subpackage mingw-libfoo-debuginfo or mingw32-libfoo-debuginfo?

I have a small patch [4] to the macros in mingw32-filesystem package which could change it back to mingw32-libfoo-debuginfo. It works by introducing a new %{_mingw32_pkg_name} macro, which holds the mingw32- prefixed name. And later, the debuginfo subpackage would be generated using the mingw32- prefixed name. The change would be transparent to any existing packages and also new packages, only the macros in mingw32-filesystem would have to change.

As a plus, it would make it possible to use the %{_mingw32_pkg_name} macro in spec files in case people want to do that, replacing:

%files -n mingw32-libfoo-static (what we have in current guidelines) %files -n mingw32-%{_mingw_pkg_name}-static (this is in the "future" mingw-w64 guidelines)

with this: %files -n %{_mingw32_pkg_name}-static

Any comments?

Thanks, Kalev

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/MinGW [2] https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/83 [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700815#c10 [4] Possible change to mingw32-filesystem macros:

--- a/macros.mingw32 +++ b/macros.mingw32 @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ # RPM macros for Fedora MinGW.

+%_mingw32_pkg_name %(echo %{name} | sed 's/^mingw-/mingw32-/') + %_mingw32_target i686-pc-mingw32

# Paths. @@ -60,14 +62,15 @@

# Template for debug sub-package. %_mingw32_debug_package(n:) \ -%package %{-n:-n %{-n*}-}debuginfo \ +%define __mingw32_debug_pkg_name %{-n*}%{!-n:%{_mingw32_pkg_name}}-debuginfo \ +%package -n %{__mingw32_debug_pkg_name} \ Summary: Debug information for package %{name} \ Group: Development/Debug \ -%description %{-n:-n %{-n*}-}debuginfo \ -This package provides debug information for package %{name}.\ +%description -n %{__mingw32_debug_pkg_name} \ +This package provides debug information for package %{_mingw32_pkg_name}.\ Debug information is useful when developing applications that use this\ package or when debugging this package.\ -%files %{-n:-n %{-n*}-}debuginfo -f debugfiles.list\ +%files -n %{__mingw32_debug_pkg_name} -f debugfiles.list\ %defattr(-,root,root,-)\ %{nil}