packaging November 2010

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Noarch package depending on an arch-specific package, how to handle it?
by Ville-Pekka Vainio 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hi, I'm packaging pymtp, which the new gPodder versions need as a dependency. The review request is at <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643199>. It's a python binding to libmtp done with ctypes. The package in itself is noarch, but I noticed it won't work, if the 32-bit version of libmtp is installed on a 64-bit system. Should I make the pymtp package arch dependent and require the libmtp package, which matches the arch? Or should I require "libmtp" and trust yum to install the 64-bit package on x86_64? That wouldn't solve the case where the system already has the 32-bit libmtp installed, though. -- Ville-Pekka Vainio

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#15 relaxing guidelines wrt. bundling
by Jeroen van Meeuwen 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > If you're on packaging(a)lists.fp.o, we should probably take discussion > there. > > Here's the fpc ticket with the question of whether we should relax the > guidelines: > https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/15 > > Note that your description of the rubygem-passenger system could still fail > to pass the test under revised guidelines depending on what they turn out > to be. For instance, the guidelines might allow bundling of the latest > upstream version or of the version provided by Fedora, or they might > require that the package maintainer be able to code fixes should they be > necessary. It's probably a good idea to join packaging(a)lists.fp.o and > give reasons that requirements like that aren't needed. > As per the thread on advisory-board; http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2010- October/009577.html I urge you to consider to allow exceptions like these for the greater benefit of your users -and thus upstream, through Fedora. Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip

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