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Schedule for Thursday's FPC Meeting (2019-08-15 16:00 UTC)
by James Antill 19 Jul '21

19 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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Summary/Minutes from today's FPC Meeting (2020-01-30 17:00 - 17:20 UTC)
by James Antill 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

====================== #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-1/2020-01-30/fpc.2020-01-3… . Meeting summary --------------- * Roll Call (geppetto, 17:00:39) * Open Floor (geppetto, 17:12:19) * ACTION: Everyone should try to vote in the ticket for fonts policy, #935 (geppetto, 17:19:36) Meeting ended at 17:20:24 UTC. Action Items ------------ * Everyone should try to vote in the ticket for fonts policy, #935 Action Items, by person ----------------------- * **UNASSIGNED** * Everyone should try to vote in the ticket for fonts policy, #935 People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * geppetto (18) * zodbot (8) * nim (6) * tibbs (5) * decathorpe (5) * mhroncok (4) * tachoknight_ (4) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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Replace a symlink to a directory with a directory
by Miro Hrončok 21 Jan '20

21 Jan '20

Hello. I was hit by a infamous "replace a symlink to a directory with a directory" problem in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1787079 /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/notebook/static/components/moment This was a symbolic link, but now it is a directory. The error is: Error: Transaction test error: file /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/notebook/static/components/moment/min/locales.js from install of python3-notebook-6.0.2-2.fc32.noarch conflicts with file from package js-moment-2.18.1-6.fc30.noarch file /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/notebook/static/components/moment/min/moment-with-locales.js from install of python3-notebook-6.0.2-2.fc32.noarch conflicts with file from package js-moment-2.18.1-6.fc30.noarch file /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/notebook/static/components/moment/moment.js from install of python3-notebook-6.0.2-2.fc32.noarch conflicts with file from package js-moment-2.18.1-6.fc30.noarch file /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/notebook/static/components/moment from install of python3-notebook-6.0.2-2.fc32.noarch conflicts with file from package python3-notebook-6.0.2-1.fc32.noarch When I add: $ rpm -q --scripts -p python3-notebook-6.0.2-3.fc32.noarch.rpm pretrans scriptlet (using <lua>): path = "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/notebook/static/components/moment" st = posix.stat(path) if st and st.type == "link" then os.remove(path) end Code: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-notebook/pull-request/17 I still get: Error: Transaction test error: file /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/notebook/static/components/moment/min/locales.js from install of python3-notebook-6.0.2-3.fc32.noarch conflicts with file from package js-moment-2.18.1-6.fc30.noarch file /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/notebook/static/components/moment/min/moment-with-locales.js from install of python3-notebook-6.0.2-3.fc32.noarch conflicts with file from package js-moment-2.18.1-6.fc30.noarch file /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/notebook/static/components/moment/moment.js from install of python3-notebook-6.0.2-3.fc32.noarch conflicts with file from package js-moment-2.18.1-6.fc30.noarch What am I doing wrong? Note that I have tried to add this workaround instead: mv moment moment.bundled ln -vfs moment.bundled moment But that clears the update path from 6.0.2-1, but breaks it from 6.0.2-2. Error: Transaction test error: file /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/notebook/static/components/moment from install of python3-notebook-6.0.2-3.fc32.noarch conflicts with file from package python3-notebook-6.0.2-2.fc32.noarch And I would need to add the other (uglier) scriptlet to replace a directory with a symbolic link :( -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok

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Is building the API docs required?
by Dan Čermák 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

Hi list, if a -devel package could include API docs from upstream, should these be packaged too or not? This recently came up during a package review, where the package submitter said that probably everyone reads the online docs anyway (where he imho has a point, I think I never read installed API docs, except for man pages). What's the official stance on this? The packaging guidelines (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_documentation) just say: > Any relevant documentation included in the source distribution should > be included in the package in the proper documentation directory Which begs the question: are API docs relevant documentation? Thanks in advance, Dan

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Schedule for Thursday's FPC Meeting (2020-01-16 17:00 UTC)
by James Antill 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FPC meeting Thursday at 2020-01-16 17:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1 on irc.freenode.net. Local time information (via. uitime): ================= Day: Thursday ================== 2020-01-16 09:00 PST US/Pacific 2020-01-16 12:00 EST --> US/Eastern <-- 2020-01-16 17:00 GMT Europe/London 2020-01-16 17:00 UTC UTC 2020-01-16 18:00 CET Europe/Berlin 2020-01-16 18:00 CET Europe/Paris 2020-01-16 22:30 IST Asia/Calcutta ---------------- New Day: Friday ----------------- 2020-01-17 01:00 HKT Asia/Hong_Kong 2020-01-17 01:00 +08 Asia/Singapore 2020-01-17 02:00 JST Asia/Tokyo 2020-01-17 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 #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 #pr-814 Add SELinux Independent Policy Guidelines https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/814 = 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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Repetitive emails from "Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client"
by Marcin Dulak 12 Jan '20

12 Jan '20

During the last couple of days, I've received numerous emails with the contents: "This package has changed maintainer in the Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component." Examples https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1742403 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1741509 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977249

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Skip the meeting this week, unless someone else wants to run it
by James Antill 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

I know we skipped a couple of meetings over the holiday break, but I'm not available to run the meeting this week (although I might be able to participate if anyone else wants to). There is one PR that's had a comment recently, but apart from that we don't seem to be holding anything new up (if you haven't read the fonts rewrite, tomorrow's meeting time would be good).

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%pre and macros
by Sérgio Basto 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Hi, In apt.spec we have [1] and when I query apt rpm for scripts (rpm -q apt --scripts ) we have [2], i.e. %{_sharedstatedir} wasn't replaced by /var/lib . why ? and how I fix it ? Thanks , [1] %pre getent group _apt >/dev/null || groupadd -r _apt getent passwd _apt >/dev/null || \ useradd -r -g _apt -d %{_sharedstatedir}/apt -s /sbin/nologin \ -c "APT account for owning persistent & cache data" _apt exit 0 [2] preinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): getent group apt >/dev/null || groupadd -r apt getent passwd apt >/dev/null || \ useradd -r -g apt -d apt -s /sbin/nologin \ -c "APT account for owning persistent & cache data" apt exit 0 -- Sérgio M. B.

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Request for feedback: %pycached macro for %files section
by Miro Hrončok 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Hello, we are considering to add a %pycached macro to be used in the %files section: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-rpm-macros/pull-request/37 We'd like to receive feedback. We plan to add it to rawhide and backport it to all Fedoras + EPEL7+. Usage: %files ... %pycached %{python3_sitelib}/foo.py This will list: /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/foo.py /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/__pycache__/foo.cpython-38{,.opt-?}.pyc Assuming the Python 3 version is 3.8. The bytecode files are globbed, their presence is not checked. This will fail: %pycached %{python3_sitelib}/foo error: %pycached can only be used with paths explicitly ending with .py And so will any of this: %pycached %{python3_sitelib}/* %pycached %{python3_sitelib}/foo.* %pycached %{python3_sitelib}/foo.p? %pycached %{python3_sitelib}/foo.?y %pycached %{python3_sitelib}/foo.?? But this will work: %pycached %{python3_sitelib}/foo*.py And it will generate the following globs: /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/foo*.py /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/__pycache__/foo*.cpython-38{,.opt-?}.pyc When used with paths that include Python 3 version, it globs with the version: %pycached /opt/python3.10/foo.py Generates: /opt/python3.10/foo.py /opt/python3.10/__pycache__/foo.cpython-310{,.opt-?}.pyc While paths without version have less strict globs: %pycached /custom/foo.py /custom/foo.py /custom/__pycache__/foo.cpython-3*{,.opt-?}.pyc This will generate a warning in RPM build: warning: File listed twice: /custom/__pycache__/foo.cpython-38.opt-1.pyc However it ensures the optimized bytecode is there. -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok

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