On Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 3:38 PM Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Packaging Guidelines currently say this, under Spec Legibility: > > | To help facilitate legibility, only macros and conditionals for Fedora > | and EPEL are allowed to be used in Fedora Packages. Use of macros and > | conditionals for other distributions, including Fedora derivatives, is > | not permitted in spec files of packages in the main Fedora > | repositories unless those macros and conditionals are also present in > | Fedora. > > <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_spec_file_encoding> > > I would like to get this changed to explicitly permit %fedora, %rhel, > %centos, %epel. And augment this list with %hummingbird, now that > Hummingbird images are part of the Fedora family. > > What's the best way to build consensus for this kind of a change to the > Packaging Guidelines, and implement it?
While we're at it, we might also want to discuss adding conditionals for Amazon Linux and Azure Linux, since those are now supposed to be on equal footing with other vendor downstreams such as RHEL? Fabio -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
