On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 3:34 PM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote: ... > I don't like the EOL-Obsolte within one Fedora release. Things like this > should > only change on release boundary. Other than that it sounds good, but consider > that packages requiring /usr/bin/node might pick any of the versions we ship. > Something might need to Suggest the one we prefer. >
Yeah, I think we'd do `Suggests: <whatever is the latest stable at Fedora Beta>`. > In Python, we deliberately decided that RPM-packaged software only uses one > version at one particular Fedora release. Do you wish to support RPMs to use > arbitrary versions including "doesn't matter"? The reality of the ecosystem is that many applications lag in their support for stable Node.js releases by months. So I think I'd want us to be able to package FooApp that relies on Node.js 16 even if the "default" for the release is Node.js 18. This should require that they modify the RPM packaged application to explicitly look for /usr/bin/node-16, rather than /usr/bin/node. Thinking about it more, I think we'd probably want to have *all* applications pin to their preferred Node.js runtime and reserve /usr/bin/node for developer convenience. It does beg the question of what to do with an application that adds support for a newer Node.js runtime mid-Fedora-lifecycle. Do we require them to stick with the initial interpreter for the life of that release to avoid pulling in another runtime on upgrade, or do we allow them to jump to the newer version? > Depending on the answer of that questions, I might give more suggestions > inspired by Python, or think about how to do it differently. _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
