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Schedule for Thursday's FPC Meeting (2019-08-15 16:00 UTC)
by James Antill 18 Jul '21

18 Jul '21

Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FPC meeting Thursday at 2019-08-15 16:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1 on irc.freenode.net. Local time information (via. uitime): ================= Day: Thursday ================== 2019-08-15 09:00 PDT US/Pacific 2019-08-15 12:00 EDT --> US/Eastern <-- 2019-08-15 16:00 UTC UTC 2019-08-15 17:00 BST Europe/London 2019-08-15 18:00 CEST Europe/Berlin 2019-08-15 18:00 CEST Europe/Paris 2019-08-15 21:30 IST Asia/Calcutta ---------------- New Day: Friday ----------------- 2019-08-16 00:00 HKT Asia/Hong_Kong 2019-08-16 00:00 +08 Asia/Singapore 2019-08-16 01:00 JST Asia/Tokyo 2019-08-16 02:00 AEST Australia/Brisbane Links to all tickets below can be found at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting = Followups = #topic #902 Cleanup & enhance spec files .fpc 902 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/902 #topic #904 Caret versioning .fpc 904 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/904 #topic #907 Which %__foo macros for executables are acceptable? .fpc 907 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/907 #topic #909 Suggest that linting/measuring-coverage is not for %check .fpc 909 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/909 #topic #914 Automatic R runtime dependencies .fpc 914 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/914 = Open Floor = For more complete details, please visit each individual ticket. The report of the agenda items can be found at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting If you would like to add something to this agenda, you can: * Reply to this e-mail * File a new ticket at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee * E-mail me directly * Bring it up at the end of the meeting, during the open floor topic. Note that added topics may be deferred until the following meeting.

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Fonts packaging policy rewrite proposal
by Nicolas Mailhot 14 Mar '20

14 Mar '20

Hi, A fonts packaging policy rewrite proposal has been pushed to FPC today: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/934 It should be clearer, more opinionated, and take into account: – updates of The OpenType standard – variable fonts – web fonts – upstream depreciation of non OpenType formats: final stages of the Harfbuzz consolidation decided at the 2006 Text Layout summit https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/TextLayout/ – appstream & fonts – weak dependencies – and probably more I forget here It is based on the new fonts-rpm-macros project for automation: This project builds on tooling enhancements in redhat-rpm-config and rpm itself, done during the past two years for the Forge and Go sets of packaging macros. It started 2 years ago as a fork of fontpackages, which is the core of our current fonts packaging guidelines. It will require putting the fonts-srpm-macros package in the default build root, like is done for other domain-specific packaging macro sets. Major additions: – better documentation (clearer and more complete) – better automation (less packager hassle for better and more complete results) Major removals: – tools and scripts – fixing metadata with ttname Mostly because no one seems willing to maintain those scripts, or port ttname to python 3. https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/builds/ showcases the new policy on 62 real-world source packages, generating 139 installation packages. Some of those are badly delayed updates to Fedora packages, others are brand-new packages ready for Fedora inclusion. They include major font packages such as Stix, DejaVu, Droid, IBM Plex. Existing Fedora packages will continue to build, the old fontpackages macros are grandfathered in fonts-rpm-macros for now. They will be removed in a few years to give packagers time to apply the new guidelines. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

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Are there packaging guidelines for bash-completion scripts?
by Richard W.M. Jones 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

I have several projects that include bash-completions, and am trying to get a new one through package review. The reviewer has raised a question about whether the package should own: %dir %{_datadir}/bash-completion/completions My existing projects have basically cargo-culted the bash-completion packaging, so I thought I would see if there are official guidelines, but I'm not finding anything. Do we have guidelines? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html

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Summary/Minutes from today's FPC Meeting (2019-11-21 17:00 - 17:50 UTC)
by James Antill 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

====================== #fedora-meeting-1: fpc ====================== Meeting started by geppetto at 17:00:38 UTC. The full logs are available at https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2019-11-21/fpc.2019-11-2… . Meeting summary --------------- * Roll Call (geppetto, 17:00:38) * Schedule (geppetto, 17:08:00) * LINK: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/packaging@lists.fedoraproject… (geppetto, 17:08:04) * #935 Fonts packaging policy rewrite (geppetto, 17:08:54) * LINK: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/934 (geppetto, 17:09:09) * #847 PR: Clarify the use of path macros wrt build dependencies (geppetto, 17:20:34) * LINK: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/847 (geppetto, 17:20:43) * Rpm upstream probably fine with ignatenkobrain patch, need some time to do one though. (geppetto, 17:24:34) * #814 PR: Add SELinux Independent Policy Guidelines (geppetto, 17:28:05) * LINK: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/814 (geppetto, 17:28:11) * mhroncok spoke to vmojzis and lbrabec, hopefully get an updated PR early next year. (geppetto, 17:32:15) * #914 Automatic R runtime dependencies (geppetto, 17:32:38) * LINK: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/919 has been merged (mhroncok, 17:40:03) * This seems to be merged, can announce. (geppetto, 17:42:07) * Open Floor (geppetto, 17:42:15) * #907 Which %__foo macros for executables are acceptable? (mhroncok, 17:44:21) * The workaround for %python is possible, mhroncok and ignatenkobrain will work on it (mhroncok, 17:50:26) Meeting ended at 17:50:55 UTC. Action Items ------------ Action Items, by person ----------------------- * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * geppetto (43) * mhroncok (32) * zodbot (15) * ignatenkobrain_ (15) * decathorpe (14) * limburgher (5) * ignatenkobrain (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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Schedule for Thursday's FPC Meeting (2019-11-21 17:00 UTC)
by James Antill 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FPC meeting Thursday at 2019-11-21 17:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1 on irc.freenode.net. Local time information (via. uitime): ================= Day: Thursday ================== 2019-11-21 09:00 PST US/Pacific 2019-11-21 12:00 EST --> US/Eastern <-- 2019-11-21 17:00 GMT Europe/London 2019-11-21 17:00 UTC UTC 2019-11-21 18:00 CET Europe/Berlin 2019-11-21 18:00 CET Europe/Paris 2019-11-21 22:30 IST Asia/Calcutta ---------------- New Day: Friday ----------------- 2019-11-22 01:00 HKT Asia/Hong_Kong 2019-11-22 01:00 +08 Asia/Singapore 2019-11-22 02:00 JST Asia/Tokyo 2019-11-22 03:00 AEST Australia/Brisbane Links to all tickets below can be found at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting = Followups = #topic #907 Which %__foo macros for executables are acceptable? .fpc 907 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/907 #topic #909 Suggest that linting/measuring-coverage is not for %check .fpc 909 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/909 #topic #914 Automatic R runtime dependencies .fpc 914 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/914 = New business = #topic #935 Fonts packaging policy rewrite .fpc 935 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/935 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/934 = Pull Requests = #topic #814 Add SELinux Independent Policy Guidelines https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/814 #topic #847 Clarify the use of path macros wrt build dependencies https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/847 = Open Floor = For more complete details, please visit each individual ticket. The report of the agenda items can be found at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting If you would like to add something to this agenda, you can: * Reply to this e-mail * File a new ticket at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee * E-mail me directly * Bring it up at the end of the meeting, during the open floor topic. Note that added topics may be deferred until the following meeting.

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Schedule for Thursday's FPC Meeting (2019-11-14 17:00 UTC)
by James Antill 13 Nov '19

13 Nov '19

Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FPC meeting Thursday at 2019-11-14 17:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1 on irc.freenode.net. Local time information (via. uitime): ================= Day: Thursday ================== 2019-11-14 09:00 PST US/Pacific 2019-11-14 12:00 EST --> US/Eastern <-- 2019-11-14 17:00 GMT Europe/London 2019-11-14 17:00 UTC UTC 2019-11-14 18:00 CET Europe/Berlin 2019-11-14 18:00 CET Europe/Paris 2019-11-14 22:30 IST Asia/Calcutta ---------------- New Day: Friday ----------------- 2019-11-15 01:00 HKT Asia/Hong_Kong 2019-11-15 01:00 +08 Asia/Singapore 2019-11-15 02:00 JST Asia/Tokyo 2019-11-15 03:00 AEST Australia/Brisbane Links to all tickets below can be found at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting = Followups = #topic #907 Which %__foo macros for executables are acceptable? .fpc 907 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/907 #topic #909 Suggest that linting/measuring-coverage is not for %check .fpc 909 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/909 #topic #914 Automatic R runtime dependencies .fpc 914 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/914 = New business = #topic #935 Fonts packaging policy rewrite .fpc 935 https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/935 = Pull Requests = #topic #814 Add SELinux Independent Policy Guidelines https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/814 #topic #847 Clarify the use of path macros wrt build dependencies https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/847 = Open Floor = For more complete details, please visit each individual ticket. The report of the agenda items can be found at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting If you would like to add something to this agenda, you can: * Reply to this e-mail * File a new ticket at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee * E-mail me directly * Bring it up at the end of the meeting, during the open floor topic. Note that added topics may be deferred until the following meeting.

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Fonts packaging policy rewrite proposal
by Nicolas Mailhot 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Hi, A fonts packaging policy rewrite proposal has been pushed to FPC today: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/934 It should be clearer, more opinionated, and take into account: – updates of The OpenType standard – variable fonts – web fonts – upstream depreciation of non OpenType formats: final stages of the Harfbuzz consolidation decided at the 2006 Text Layout summit https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/TextLayout/ – appstream & fonts – weak dependencies – and probably more I forget here It is based on the new fonts-rpm-macros project for automation: This project builds on tooling enhancements in redhat-rpm-config and rpm itself, done during the past two years for the Forge and Go sets of packaging macros. It started 2 years ago as a fork of fontpackages, which is the core of our current fonts packaging guidelines. It will require putting the fonts-srpm-macros package in the default build root, like is done for other domain-specific packaging macro sets. Major additions: – better documentation (clearer and more complete) – better automation (less packager hassle for better and more complete results) Major removals: – tools and scripts – fixing metadata with ttname Mostly because no one seems willing to maintain those scripts, or port ttname to python 3. https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/builds/ showcases the new policy on 62 real-world source packages. Some of those are badly delayed updates to Fedora packages, others are brand-new packages ready for Fedora inclusion. They include major font packages such as Stix, DejaVu, Droid, IBM Plex. Existing Fedora packages will continue to build, the old fontpackages macros are grandfathered in fonts-rpm-macros for now. They will be removed in a few years to give packagers time to apply the new guidelines. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

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