Re: python-urlgrabber, yum: blatant disregard for packaging guidelines and common sense

2013-10-10 Thread Jan Zelený
On 9. 10. 2013 at 17:31:38, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote: > Quoting tim.laurid...@gmail.com (2013-10-09 16:48:31) > > > the original urlgrabber maintainer left long time ago, but the yum team > > adopted the code, because it was critical to yum, so this is cause why > > there has been no upstream re

Re: python-urlgrabber, yum: blatant disregard for packaging guidelines and common sense

2013-10-09 Thread Stanislav Ochotnicky
Quoting tim.laurid...@gmail.com (2013-10-09 16:48:31) > the original urlgrabber maintainer left long time ago, but the yum team > adopted the code, because it was critical to yum, so this is cause why > there has been no upstream release. > yum shold make upstream releases in more frequently, inste

Re: python-urlgrabber, yum: blatant disregard for packaging guidelines and common sense

2013-10-09 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
the original urlgrabber maintainer left long time ago, but the yum team adopted the code, because it was critical to yum, so this is cause why there has been no upstream release. yum shold make upstream releases in more frequently, instead of adding very large patches to latest git HEAD. yum-utils

Re: python-urlgrabber, yum: blatant disregard for packaging guidelines and common sense

2013-10-09 Thread Jan Zelený
On 8. 10. 2013 at 19:06:21, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote: > I was looking for examples of nice packages for upcoming packaging workshop > we are doing in Brno. I made the terrible mistake of doing fedpkg clone > python-urlgrabber. > > If there was some normal packaging issue I'd most likely just fil

Re: python-urlgrabber, yum: blatant disregard for packaging guidelines and common sense

2013-10-08 Thread H . Guémar
Hi, Thank you for sharing that sad issue :( i wish that we could review regularly all packages but that's obviously not feasible. What is doable: * automated review of packages: git hooks ? regular mass fedora-review checks ? triggering a mail to a list ? our scm watchdogs do a great job at spotti

python-urlgrabber, yum: blatant disregard for packaging guidelines and common sense

2013-10-08 Thread Stanislav Ochotnicky
I was looking for examples of nice packages for upcoming packaging workshop we are doing in Brno. I made the terrible mistake of doing fedpkg clone python-urlgrabber. If there was some normal packaging issue I'd most likely just file a bug in bugzilla, but this made my blood boil. This is one of o