On Tue, 9 Sept 2025 at 13:04, Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-09-09 at 14:46 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > Could we instead make all that part of fedora-release? generic-release > > is mostly a clone of fedora-release, with a lot of outdated stuff. > > What would be required to use one of the subpackages of fedora-release > > (possibly a new subpackage) and retire generic-release? > > I think the problem with that is that then any forks would need to > include the fedora-release source RPM, and the goal of generic-release > (and the overall concept of having multiple providers of system-release > and system-logos) is to make that not necessary. > Would it make sense to change the way the src.rpms are built and with generic-release being the 'parent' of fedora-release so that system-wide changes happen in both that way. Maybe something like a parent 'project' which has a template set of jinja (or whatever the cool one is these days) and then changes get made, a make is made, and several src tar balls are generated which can each be their own package versus a sub-package. Does that make sense? > -- > Adam Williamson (he/him/his) > Fedora QA > Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @ad...@fosstodon.org > https://www.happyassassin.net > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- Ian MacClaren
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