On Wed, Jan 1, 2020, 15:51 Mattia Verga via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> The `peek` package has been approved in Fedora repositories [1], but it > doesn't even start without ffmpeg installed [2], which is not > distributed in Fedora repositories (but is available in rpmfusion): > > $ peek > Error: Child process exited with code 1 > Unable to create default screen recorder. > > The peek specfile contains a `Recommends: ffmpeg >= 3`, which is rather > confusing... I think this package should never have passed the review > process! It should really stay in rpmfusion repository. > > Is this something allowed? Should I file a ticket against the package or > against fedora-infra to suggest its retirement? > Requiring or even Recommending or Suggesting packages that are not satisfiable from the fedora repositories is definitely not allowed (there's a section in the Packaging Guidelines about this). Whether it is enough to remove the "Recommends" on ffmpeg from the package or if it has to be retired and / or obsoleted with fedora-obsolete-packages is something I don't know. So definitely file a ticket about this. Fabio > Mattia > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1709029 > [2] https://github.com/phw/peek/issues/485 > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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