On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 3:23 PM Vít Ondruch <vondr...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Dne 27. 04. 24 v 6:58 Neal Gompa napsal(a): > > * Switch to python-style compat/main packages. In order to make the > packaging more > consistent between the main package (e.g. llvm) and the compat package (e.g. > llvm18), > we would retire the un-versioned dist-git for llvm, and create a new > versioned dist-git > for each new release (e.g. llvm19, llvm20, llvm21 etc.). We would then > designate one > of these as the 'main version', and that version would produce binary rpms > that look > like the current main package (i.e. llvm-libs instead of llvm19-libs). > > Ehh? I guess? I don't think this buys us that much. > > * Invert the order of compat/main packages. Instead of having the compat > package be > the old version, and the main package be the new version, we would have the > compat package > be newer and the main package be older. This would allow us to introduce a > new version of > llvm without impacting other packages that depend on the main version of LLVM. > > I don't like this idea, it makes things harder to reason about and > doesn't actually solve any problems. > > > I concur with Neal here. > > I we were living in ideal world, we would have just one `llvm` package. Since > we are not living in ideal world, it makes sense to have some compat > versions. But we should try to get as close as possible to ideal world. > Versioning packages by default goes against that goal, because it encourages > sticking to some specific version for no particular reason.
For the special case of LLVM, I disagree here. Some projects are just not compatible with newer LLVM versions until upstream moves first, and that can take time. So I don't think that counts as "sticking to some specific version for no particular reason", it's "upstream doesn't support LLVM X at all yet, they only support LLVM X-1 for now". I have never seen a Fedora package that uses an LLVM compat package "for no particular reason". Fabio -- _______________________________________________ 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
