On 2025/04/17 10:28, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
On 16/04/2025 13:47, Aoife Moloney wrote:
== Benefit to Fedora ==
* Avoid packaging issue due to the current assumption that the the
paths used are meant to be absolute paths.
* Encourage upstream build system modernization and standardization.
Sorry, but I'm still skeptical about this change. I don't see any real
benefits for Fedora. I only see additional pain for maintainers.
I think these non-standard variables are better stay in cmake.macros
rather than added to each individual package where they are required.
The goal is to fix them usptream for the benefit of upstream and other
packaging ecosystems. Inevitably some upstreams are dead, in which case
a downstream definition would be preferred, but also it's a good
reminder to check if those packages are used anymore.
So far as I've raised this issue with upstream they were positive to the
migration. Of course I had to be the one to write the PR for the
migration, but I don't expect it to be any other way. This is why this
change proposal does not have a deadline. Feel free to tag me on the
upstream, if upstream is opposed.
As for downstream benefits, it is much easier to do fixes globally in
the GNUInstallDirs or in the cmake package, where the definition of
these variables is well documented and with the help of policy switches.
I am also up to fixing some of the longstanding CMake issues that affect
packaging, so feel free to ping me on some of them that I should
investigate.
--
_______________________________________________
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
