On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 09:26:29PM +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 at 21:08, Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 02:24:57PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > I could try to look into updating this, but I'll need some help to > > > figure out how to get all the revdeps rebuilt and such. Do we want to > > > try to merge this into the main boost spec? Or keep it separate? > > > > It'd be ideal to merge it since it reduces long term maintenance, but > > that's going to require both the cooperation and the understanding of > > Fedora's boost maintainer. > > What's the context here? Merge what?
At the moment, nothing more than discussion. For some packages we've combined the mingw-* [Windows] package with the main package (so the mingw-* package is built as a subpackage from the same sources). An example is worth a 1000 words, so: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gnutls/blob/rawhide/f/gnutls.spec (look for the 'with mingw' sections). Advantages are that the packages always stay in sync, and there's less maintenance (at least, in total). Disadvantages is this puts extra burden on the main maintainer. For some packages it might be a very great extra burden, for others not so much. It also makes the spec file a lot more complicated. Since the mingw-boost package has fallen some way behind the main package, that's what we were discussing. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org -- _______________________________________________ mingw 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
