Neal Gompa wrote:
> While we in the PSWG/KDE SIG have been working on extending our
> automation to support snapshot builds in COPR/OBS, we've come across a
> few packages in the KDE stack that have been inappropriately switched
> to RPMAutoSpec.
Wow. I find it extremely rude to convert packages to any sort of automagic
behind the primary maintainer's back and/or without their approval.
> It is the position of the KDE SIG that packages that are part of the
> KDE stack *must not* use RPMAutoSpec as it is problematic for package
> builds outside of Fedora Koji. Notably, neither COPR nor OBS handle
> RPMAutoSpec packages properly, and this results in wonky issues with
> upgrade paths and other things being broken.
>
> This has been observed many times for us and it results in unusable
> results for testers and developers.
>
> Please do not convert any packages governed by the KDE SIG to
> RPMAutoSpec, especially if it is released by the KDE community.
Makes a lot of sense.
While we are at it, I would also ask to NOT convert any of MY packages to
RPMAutoSpec. (In my case, I am also opposed to %autosetup, which the KDE SIG
does use in some of their packages.)
Kevin Kofler
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