Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-06 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > The problem is you're confusing general gains and gains in > specific scenarios. But the thing is that a gain in some specific scenario is a lot less useful than a general gain. And the latter is usually not had through profiling, but through improvements in toolchain

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-06 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Neal Gompa wrote: > GCC is not the official compiler on Windows or macOS. Both platforms > require frame pointers on all supported architectures with their > official compilers (MSVC for Windows, Clang for macOS). Frame pointers are not required by the operating system if you can compile working

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-06 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Also, for MSVC, /Oy- is documented to be supported on everything except /Oy actually. /Oy- is the default (= -fno-omit-frame-pointer), /Oy is the equivalent of -fomit-frame-pointer. But both are documented as unsupported only for "x64 compilers".

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-08 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Still, it gives an extremely bad impression of rushing this through > without giving anybody the chance to object. > > I also do not see why this needed to be approved for F38 on such a short > notice and could not wait for F39. PS: The impressio

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-08 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > 7. Only 4 days had elapsed between the (unannounced) opening of the ticket > and the vote. This is clearly insufficient. The one week in the Change Sorry, there were actually 6 days. Still, less than a week, and there was no mailing list announcemen

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-08 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > The original proposal received a lot of negative feedback. Only a few > big corporations will get benefit and end users will get a 3-10% > performance penalty which is absolutely unacceptable. Not to mention the size impact. My request in the original discussion t

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-08 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Also, the pull request implementing the change was merged 6 days BEFORE the change was approved by FESCo! It is unacceptable to sneak unapproved changes into Rawhide this way in order to "create facts". Kevin Kofler ___ devel mailing list -- de

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-08 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > PS: The impression I get is that everything was deliberately rigged so > that the vote would end up the way it did: > > 1. A new ticket was filed, in order to exclude the participants of the > previous discussion. > 2. The people watching the o

Re: FESCo revote on "Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer" Change proposal [was Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)]

2023-01-09 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Am Montag, 9. Jänner 2023 17:47:54 CET schrieb Matthew Miller: And, from a practical point of view, since this passed with six +1 votes, I'm not sure what benefit canceling and re-voting would really add. Canceling the vote and requiring that the Change Policy be followed would mean that the c

Re: FESCo revote on "Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer" Change proposal [was Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)]

2023-01-09 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Am Montag, 9. Jänner 2023 20:10:53 CET schrieb Daniel P. Berrangé: Holding a FESCo meeting and vote on the very first working day after the long xmas / new year holiday is not exactly good timing if you want contributors to be broadly aware it is happening[1]. I might humbly suggest that next yea

Re: FESCo revote on "Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer" Change proposal [was Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)]

2023-01-09 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Am Montag, 9. Jänner 2023 21:02:48 CET schrieb Tom Stellard: I think a good solution would be to move the proposal submission deadlines a month earlier in the schedule. There's only 3 weeks between the "Changes Requiring Mass Rebuild" deadline and the mass rebuild. I don't think 3 weeks is rea

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-09 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Am Montag, 9. Jänner 2023 23:06:17 CET schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 06:06:47PM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: PS: The impression I get is that everything was deliberately rigged so that the vote would end up the way it did

Re: FESCo revote on "Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer" Change proposal [was Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)]

2023-01-09 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Miro Hrončok wrote: > Considering the mass rebuild is happening really soon, I feel like > repeating the vote later is not helpful, but if people want to, we can > surely run the vote again. However, I am confident the result will be the > same. With all this talk about the mass rebuild being immi

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-09 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > On 1/6/23 20:35, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: >> (There are exist other profiling tools and techniques that do not >> require frame pointer recompilation, but whatever.) > > Which ones? I would love for them to exist, and I believe there is > work being done in that direct

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-10 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Am Dienstag, 10. Jänner 2023 08:25:27 CET schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 11:53:17PM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: No, the result is NOT why I got the impression that the vote was rigged. The way that result was obtained is. Exactly, you're just confi

Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-10)

2023-01-10 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Miro Hrončok wrote: > * ACTION: bcotton to make a proposal on the mailing list to explicitly > require full resubmission of rejected proposals (and then bring it > to a FESCo ticket once discussion has happened) (mhroncok, > 18:36:36) So FESCo is willing to prevent this from happening again in th

Re: Unannounced? lua-libs soname change

2023-01-10 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Hans de Goede wrote: > lua-5.4.4-4.fc37 in F37 release provides both: > > liblua-5.3.so()(64bit) > liblua-5.4.so()(64bit) > > aka both of: > > /usr/lib64/liblua-5.3.so > /usr/lib64/liblua-5.4.so This was a compatibility hack that was accidentally left enabled: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms

Re: Unannounced? lua-libs soname change

2023-01-10 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Simo Sorce wrote: > Soname breakage should not happen in stable releases... There are exceptions, including but not limited to security updates, which is relevant for Lua. > liblua should be rebuilt to provide the older so name and if not > possible with the new code, reverted back via epoch cha

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-10 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Michael Catanzaro wrote: > You've previously indicated that developers should just 'dnf > distro-sync' to an alternative Fedora that has frame pointers, as if > building two alternate versions of Fedora, one for developers and one > for users, is a reasonable thing to do. The cost of this is just t

Re: FESCo revote on "Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer" Change proposal [was Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)]

2023-01-10 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Michael Catanzaro wrote: > (In particular, I doubt the _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 change was really a major > consideration here.) What was, then? That was literally the only thing that has changed between the two diametrically different votes. Kevin Kofler ___

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-10 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > That description assumes that FESCo members are preschoolers who are > easy to trick and also need to be reminded who said what every day. > That's certainly not the case. The objections against the proposal > were made very clearly and they certainly weren't fo

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)

2023-01-12 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > That came up in yesterday's FESCO meeting, so hopefully at least that > workflow hole will be plugged: Still does not help the current case though, unfortunately. Kevin Kofler ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fed

-fno-omit-frame-pointer does not work as advertised

2023-01-14 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Hi, to those who are pushing the -fno-omit-frame-pointer change: Are you aware that neither that flag nor even -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer actually guarantee that every leaf function is going to carry a frame pointer, as required for your backtraces? See for yourself: https://godbolt.org/z/Tj

Re: -fno-omit-frame-pointer does not work as advertised

2023-01-15 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Daniel Alley wrote: > It is unlikely that the critical bottleneck of any applications will be on > such a function. But it can be in the function CALLING such a function, and said function will be completely missing from the backtrace. Quoting your link [https://developer.arm.com/documentation/

Re: List of long term FTBFS packages to be retired in February

2023-01-15 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Olivier Fourdan wrote: > Actually… I suspect fixing that build failure would require a fix in > the xserver from ajax [1] Actually, this is the fix that is needed: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-qxl/-/commit/4e1963a812f2c1777ba5d56ea9e939a3e40a0496 (This is the xf86-video-q

Re: -fno-omit-frame-pointer does not work as advertised

2023-01-15 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Daniel Alley wrote: > The quotation says the opposite of what you are saying. "leaves the frame > pointer pointing to the caller's frame" => the caller set the frame > pointer, the leaf did not, therefore the leaf function will not show up > but the caller still will. No, that is not what it say

Re: z3 soname bump

2023-01-16 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Lukas Zaoral wrote: > there is no need to wait for klee. Unfortunately, the package cannot be > build in Rawhide at the moment since the project cannot be built with LLVM > 15 and the llvm14 compatibility package cannot be used with clang 15 (and > clang14 is a library only package). Looks like we

Re: F39 proposal: Remove pam_console (System-Wide Change proposal)

2023-01-16 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
> * As of today the module does nothing because one of the configuration > files use to define the permissions (50-default.perms) is not > installed in the distribution. Other packages may install their own > configuration files to specify the permissions, but I haven't found > any. So basically,

Re: -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 and other compiler flags stored in Python

2023-01-19 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Fabio Valentini wrote: > In that case, I think it would make sense to have C / C++ compiler > flags for user-installed Python packages to fall back to GCC defaults > (same as for user-compiled C / C++ code) The GCC defaults are completely useless. -O0, almost no warnings, etc. Kevin Kofle

Re: -fno-omit-frame-pointer does not work as advertised

2023-01-19 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Daan De Meyer via devel wrote: >> What about the new SFrame unwind info? > > We're closely following up on this new format and will compare it against > frame pointers if a patch introducing a kernel unwinder for sframe is > proposed and likely to be merged. It's still very early days for SFrame >

Re: FYI... yubioath-desktop is slated to be removed from F38 repository

2023-01-19 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Gerald B. Cox wrote: > yubioath-desktop and potentially yubikey-manager-qt will not be included > in the F38 repository due to packaging issues. For additional information > and suggested mitigations, please review: > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f38-yubioath-desktop-yubikey-manager-qt-w

Re: FYI... yubioath-desktop is slated to be removed from F38 repository

2023-01-19 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > Is someone working on packaging the Dart and Flutter SDK > (and all their dependencies, which I had had this vague > recollection also required gradle, and, well, gradle is its > own issue) for Fedora in that F39/F40 time frame so that they > can be used to build apps such

Re: Retiring Bottles in favor of Flatpak provided by upstream

2023-01-26 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Adam Williamson wrote: > OTOH, it's not reasonable to dictate to the person maintaining a Fedora > package whether they should think that's a reasonable use of their time > or not. The current maintainers of Bottles decided they trust the > upstream developers to distribute their software 'properly

Re: Will dnf5 be ready by F39?

2023-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Michael Catanzaro wrote: > A PackageKit backend for dnf5 would also work and I have no doubt it > will happen regardless. Surely that'd be the best option for Fedora if > dnfdaemon does not have the same D-Bus API that PackageKit does, > because pushing dnf-specific code into upstream projects when

Re: openmpi 5.0.0 drops 32-bit support

2023-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Fabio Valentini wrote: > You don't even need to file paperwork for excluding i686 anymore since > this happened: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EncourageI686LeafRemoval But openmpi is not a leaf package, so this fast-track process does not apply. Kevin Kofler __

Re: Will dnf5 be ready by F39?

2023-02-04 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: > Sharing the same point of view, I failed to understand why as open > source the community failed to properly produce a better documentation > for a plugin and better documentation for a cross platform front > package manager like PackageKit while continuing to yet anothe

Re: Hoping to disable i686 and 32-bit arm for Podman and related tools for existing Fedora releases

2023-02-07 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Lokesh Mandvekar wrote: > We (podman upstream and fedora maintainers) are hoping to disable i686 > and 32-bit arm builds for Podman and some related tools under > https://github.com/containers org. We would like to do this also for > released Fedora versions, and not just the upcoming ones. In gen

Re: Retiring Bottles in favor of Flatpak provided by upstream

2023-02-08 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > Looking at Flatpaks with both my upstream author hat and distro maintainer > hat, the main advantages I see is not the isolation. It is that they have > the potential to eliminate the massive amount of duplicated work between > every distro re-packaging the same app, and

Re: Hoping to disable i686 and 32-bit arm for Podman and related tools for existing Fedora releases

2023-02-08 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Lokesh Mandvekar wrote: > Checked with the team and I'm told 32-bit containers on 64-bit arch > should not be impacted. Good to know. Then I think nobody will miss the i686 build or even notice its absence (considering that it is not a shared library and that pure i686 installations of Fedora ha

Re: Fedora Linux 38 blocker status summary

2023-02-11 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Ben Cotton wrote: > 1–3. distribution — {Workstation,Everything,Server} boot x86_64 image > exceeds maximum size — ASSIGNED Let me guess, this is from the -fno-omit-frame-pointers Change? I have been asking for data on the size impact and I have been completely ignored both by the Change owners

Re: Fedora Linux 38 branched

2023-02-11 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 06:44:03PM +0100, Tomas Hrcka wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Fedora Linux 38 has now been branched, please be sure to do a git pull >> --rebase to pick up the new branch > > I know this has been discussed seemingly on every branching since the

Re: Fedora Linux 38 blocker status summary

2023-02-13 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Chris Adams wrote: > Can you stop grinding your axe against a decision you don't agree with? > You're just "guessing" with zero evidence. I have also seen zero evidence of the contrary (i.e., that the size change is *not* significant), which should have been a prerequisite for accepting the chan

Re: fedrq - new repoquerying tool

2023-02-13 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Maxwell G via devel wrote: > ``` > $ fedrq whatrequires -X -F source $(fedrq subpkgs SRCNAME) # equivalent > $ fedrq subpkgs SRCNAME | fedrq whatrequires -X -i -F source # equivalent > ``` Since your mail does not document what the -X flag does: Quoting: https://git.sr.ht/~gotmax23/fedrq/tree/e75

Re: Fedora Linux 38 blocker status summary

2023-02-13 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > We need to be much stricter on size increases! In Fedora 9 (when the xz > compression for live images was introduced, which made it smaller than > Fedora 7 or 8), the x86_64 KDE Spin was 729272320 bytes. I have to correct myself: Fedora 9 was not whe

Re: Fedora Linux 38 blocker status summary

2023-02-13 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Stephen Smoogen wrote: > I did a check on some.. I only downloaded 3 isos so this isn't a complete > set. I think trying to track down 11 to 16 years of creeping bloat now is pretty much a lost cause, but one thing I notice: > The 20 largest packages on 33 is: [snip] > 47955205 qt5-qtwebkit > 60

Re: Fedora Linux 38 blocker status summary

2023-02-13 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Stephen Smoogen wrote: > The following is from the F38 image from last week? > > dnf remove qt5-qtwebengine > Error: > Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected > packages: plasma-desktop QtWebEngine is the native web engine of the KDE desktop and the one that shou

Re: Fedora Linux 38 blocker status summary

2023-02-13 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Neal Gompa wrote: > FYI, if the GTK-based Anaconda UI goes away, the KDE variants probably > ship a thin QtWebEngine wrapper or use Firefox instead for the > web-based UI. No reason to depend on WebKitGTK for this. Well, the way the Anaconda web UI is currently packaged, it hardcodes a requiremen

Re: Fedora Linux 38 blocker status summary

2023-02-13 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Neal Gompa wrote: > We're not getting rid of Firefox. At least that is an answer, unlike the complete radio silence on: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1920298 Still does not explain why Firefox has to be the default though. But the thing is, this inevitably leads to: * unnecessarily

Re: Fedora Linux 38 blocker status summary

2023-02-13 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > And is kept up to date, unlike QtWebEngine. QtWebEngine is invariably > behind on security patches. I blame Google for not making embedded > Chromium a first-class citizen. Qt backports security fixes to its stable branches, a service Google is not offering by themse

Re: Fedora Linux 38 blocker status summary

2023-02-14 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Peter Robinson wrote: > It was decided years ago that all desktops would have some Fedora > similarities, backgrounds, browser etc. If and when that was decided, that was without involving the maintainers of the Spins. I know because I was directly involved with maintaining the KDE Spin at the t

Re: Fedora Linux 38 blocker status summary

2023-02-14 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Michael Catanzaro wrote: > As a browser maintainer itself, I'm very supportive of the Falkon > project. I consider it to be KDE's equivalent of Epiphany, sort of a > sister project, more or less. Agreed. I also think that the "Workstation Edition" should be shipping Epiphany instead of Firefox (a

Re: Fedora Linux 38 blocker status summary

2023-02-14 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2023-02-14 at 16:44 +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: >> Peter Robinson wrote: >> > It was decided years ago that all desktops would have some Fedora >> > similarities, backgrounds, browser etc. >> >> If and when that

Re: Feedback wanted for a proposed improvement to RPM's ELF dependency generator

2023-02-21 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Gordon Messmer wrote: > As there is some discussion of whether the ELF dependency generator > should use the full version string presented by the library file name's > suffix, or should assume a SemVer-style major.minor and truncate the > requirement to the first two dot-separated numbers, question

Re: FTBFS bug filed, build already deleted

2023-02-21 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Julian Sikorski wrote: > FTBFS bug was filed against mame [1]. Unfortunately, the corresponding > build [2] has already been deleted. This is not ideal from maintainer > perspective as it effectively is a bug with no info provided whatsoever. > Not to mention being quite wasteful from the resources

Re: Proposal: drop delta rpms (for real this time)

2023-02-21 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > I fear the only way to fix it is to get pungi to merge entire repos, and > I don't think thats anything that pungi wants to be on the hook for > doing. But there are more things than just DeltaRPMs it could be useful for. E.g., I remember that in ancient times (pre Core-Extra

Re: Feedback wanted for a proposed improvement to RPM's ELF dependency generator

2023-02-22 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Gordon Messmer wrote: > I'm not sure if that means that you are opposed to the proposal, or to > the idea of truncating the version numbers, or something else entirely. > :) I see the value of the proposal, but I am worried that it may run into issues with upstream packages using very weird libr

Re: Changes to Bugzilla API key requirements

2023-02-22 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Ben Cotton wrote: > Red Hat Bugzilla has introduced a 12 month lifetimes for API keys. You > must replace your API keys at least once a year. Additionally, any API > key that is not used for 30 days will be suspended but can be > re-enabled on the account's preferences tab. So Red Hat Bugzilla API

Re: Changes to Bugzilla API key requirements

2023-02-23 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Matthew Miller wrote: > The "good news" is that Red Hat has announced a move away from Bugzilla > for future products. (They're going to Jira.) Ah right, I had forgotten about that issue. I do not think I will ever understand the fascination some projects have for JIRA. It is proprietary, and IM

Re: Proposal: drop delta rpms (for real this time)

2023-02-23 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24 2023 at 12:00:40 AM +0100, Björn Persson > wrote: >> There are also other dangers with installing only security fixes. If a >> bugfix is released and packaged, and later it's discovered that the >> bug >> had security implications, then no security update

Re: Proposal: drop delta rpms (for real this time)

2023-02-23 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > I'm not sure what a solution could be. Keep every update in updateinfo > so dnf could tell you that there's 2 updates and 1 is security and the > other bugfix? but then we would need to also keep those updates around > to update to. Add a repodata field "last security update E

Re: Proposal: drop delta rpms (for real this time)

2023-02-25 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > I would personally not miss --security, but what is really useful is the > --advisory=… flag that used to be implemented by the same plugin. (They > are now both built in in DNF.) That is invaluable to test individual > updates from updates-testing. I wo

Re: c++ packaging of contour terminal and libunicode

2023-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Felix Wang wrote: > /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccW09Umc.ltrans0.ltrans.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 > against symbol `_ZTIZN8logstore4SinkC4EbRSoEUlSt17basic_string_viewIcSt11char_traitsIcEEE_' > can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC Pass -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE:BOOL=O

Re: c++ packaging of contour terminal and libunicode

2023-03-01 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Dan Horák wrote: > another option is to build the internal libs as static, then they won't > have to be installed. Try appending > -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=OFF > to the cmake flags I guess this is also why the OP ran into the error with the non-PIC code in the static library in the RPM build and

Re: F39 proposal: Modernize Thread Building Blocks for Fedora 39 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2023-03-01 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > Parallel runtime installation is obviously required. > But is it necessary to have parallel installation of devel headers? > It might be less work to have conflicting -devel packages and just > BuildRequire one or the other. Conflicting -devel packages are an a

Re: Proposal: drop delta rpms (for real this time)

2023-03-01 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Petr Pisar wrote: > Would that affect all clients? No. updateinfo.xml can only be downloaded > by clients requesting that data. People doing "dnf upgrade" can safely > skip it. Keep in mind that updateinfo.xml is also used by GUI updaters such as dnfdragora or plasma-pk-updates to display details

Re: Changes to Bugzilla API key requirements

2023-03-01 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Not O365, but Google Workspace... that ship sailed some time ago (I'm > sending this using Thunderbird going through Google Workspace, so at > least I don't have to *see* GMail...) #facepalm# 🤦 Kevin Kofler ___ devel ma

Re: gnutls time_t breakage on i686 (was: Re: qemu on i686)

2023-03-02 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > The main reason for i686 continuing to exist at all in Fedora is to > facilitate running of externally distributed 32-bit apps (for example > wine/steam related). Those apps are all going to be built with 32-bit > time_t. WINE is packaged in Fedora. If Fedora rebuilds e

Re: F39 proposal: Modernize Thread Building Blocks for Fedora 39 (System-Wide Change proposal)

2023-03-02 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > True. But is this annoyance bigger than updating dependent packages > to load headers from a different location? Apparently many (most?) > packages will need to use the compat headers at least for now, so that > cost would be pretty high. This depends mainly on

Re: gnutls time_t breakage on i686

2023-03-04 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Florian Weimer wrote: > And I thought Wine can run 32-bit Windows applications against 64-bit > system libraries these days? Or at least it's getting there. Then Wine > wouldn't be a reason to keep 32-bit builds around. > > | *** WoW64 > | > | - The 64-bit Windows-on-Windows (WoW64) architectur

Re: Firecracker microVM manager

2023-03-04 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
David Michael wrote: > - Firecracker can be built with Fedora's libc (glibc), but it is > officially unsupported upstream[3]. Functionality would be harmed by > not using musl, e.g. seccomp filters are not used. Upstream's refusal to write seccomp filters that work with glibc should be a red fla

Re: Firecracker microVM manager

2023-03-06 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > And since we're talking hypervisors, qemu also manages to use glibc & > implement a seccomp filter. Good to know. I was not aware that qemu has a seccomp filter, that is nice. Kevin Kofler ___ devel mailing list -- dev

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Opt-In Metrics for Fedora Workstation (system-wide)

2024-07-13 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Mattia Verga via devel wrote: > BTW, it's not really different on how the kde-sig managed to drop x11 > support - they wanted to do so and they have not stopped until they got > what they want, addressing most of the concerns raised by the community. But the main concern was that the community doe

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Opt-In Metrics for Fedora Workstation (system-wide)

2024-07-13 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Michael Catanzaro wrote: > We don't have proposed wording yet. We should of course be reasonable > and not write something misleading, but I think the question should be > something along the lines of "help improve Fedora" (e.g. "Help improve > Fedora by sending anonymous usage data" plus maybe "Fe

Re: F41 Change Proposal: Anaconda as native Wayland application (System Wide)

2024-07-13 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
mkol...@redhat.com wrote: > To only change that could impact spins is that we would ideally like to > drop the X11-only libXklavier library we have used for keaboard > handling so far and replace it with the universal localed keyboard > handling API. IIRC Jiri Konecny already notified all spin owne

Re: Intent to retire pkpgcounter

2024-07-13 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Ohms, Jannis wrote: > I Inherited a legacy Project using this tool to count pages. I use this > tool as part of a tea4cups hook . are you aware of any substitutes for > pkpgcounter There is this fork: https://github.com/berghetti/pkpgcounter-1 that at least claims to support Python 3. (It is a f

Re: F42 Change Proposal: Opt-In Metrics for Fedora Workstation (system-wide)

2024-07-14 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > That said, it is not sufficient to reject adding Fedora downstream > spyware. Fedora also needs a policy that upstream "telemetry" spyware is > not allowed and needs to be disabled at compile time or patched out. We > have several packaged a

Re: sbin-merge: what to do?

2024-07-15 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Frank R Dana Jr. wrote: > I do not envy you this work. The documentation fallout alone... So WHY again are we doing this then? All this is achieving is causing breakage, for zero user-visible benefit. IMHO, the sbin merge should NOT be merged/pushed from the side tag into Rawhide. Instead, the

Re: sbin-merge: what to do?

2024-07-15 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > So… the question now: should I pull the plug on the change for F41, > dump the side tag, Yes please! > and try again for F42? No thanks! Please just dump this broken idea into the trashcan it belongs in. Kevin Kofler -- ___

Re: sbin-merge: what to do?

2024-07-15 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > I guess you are talking about live images here? > > If so, they shouldn't need rpm as they don't install using it... The live images MUST contain the rpm executable because their contents are installed to disk (HDD/SSD/whatever) when installing the live image, and at that p

Re: The future Fedora Copr "rolling" chroot cleanup policy

2024-07-15 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Pavel Raiskup wrote: > This is a gentle heads-up (at least a year in advance) that we plan to > address Fedora Copr storage consumption related to Fedora Rawhide > builds. Currently, Rawhide build results are kept indefinitely, but > this is going to change in the future. > > For the full story,

Re: The future Fedora Copr "rolling" chroot cleanup policy

2024-07-17 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Pavel Raiskup wrote: > Have you considered to submit an RFE for this "Extend All" feature? > I think this convenience button (or even with API, if reasonably easy to > implement) sounds like an acceptable compromise to me. I remember having once suggested that on this mailing list and having rece

Re: The future Fedora Copr "rolling" chroot cleanup policy

2024-07-18 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Pavel Raiskup wrote: > Yes, I believe there are high chances to accept this (much harder will > to prioritize the feature). If you know what you are doing, the point > should not be to make the prolonging process click-expensive - which it > admittedly is now, if you maintain dozens of long-term p

Re: [Java related] packaging Italian ID card middleware

2024-07-18 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Marián Konček wrote: > You will do the others a great service if you use the English > language in GitHub commits and READMEs. I doubt this will be used outside of Italy, except perhaps by Italian citizens abroad (like me), who should also understand the Italian language. It looks like every sin

Re: [Java related] packaging Italian ID card middleware

2024-07-18 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Germano Massullo wrote: > It worths also mentioning that both the Windows and Mac OS versions do > not contain any Java source. > Moreover, the Windows version contains some C# sources > https://github.com/italia/cie-middleware > and the Mac OS version contains some Objective C sources > https://gi

Re: [Java related] packaging Italian ID card middleware

2024-07-22 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Germano Massullo wrote: > 1. please switch to CMake build system completely: some parts of the > software need to be built through Eclipse, I.E. cie-pkcs11. CMake should > be the only build system in the project. CMake will also enable CIE > Middleware being built for all Linux distributions, Mac O

Re: [Java related] packaging Italian ID card middleware

2024-07-22 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Marián Konček wrote: > I had the same question and I don't exactly remember the most important > reason, but it was something like there were large differences between > versions which made the builds more difficult. Now I see it also uses > Kotlin, maybe that is also a reason. Upstream projects te

Re: [Java related] packaging Italian ID card middleware

2024-07-22 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Julian Sikorski wrote: > Germany uses their own implementation too: > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/AusweisApp2 > To add insult to injury, it requires the use of custom EC curves, which > are bound to stop working at any moment: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2259403 At which p

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2024-07-23)

2024-07-23 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > #3244 Change: Retire Python 2.7 > https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3244 > APPROVED (+8, 0, 0) This is going to break the build of a whole bunch of compatibility packages, which will in turn break a lot of software in Fedora. Do you expect packages to do what Qt5

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2024-07-23)

2024-07-23 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > #3242 Change: Opt-In Metrics for Fedora Workstation > https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3242 > APPROVED (+6, 0, 0) And this one is yet another case of FESCo rubberstamping a change without even any dissenting vote despite loads of negative mailing list feedback. I

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2024-07-23)

2024-07-23 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Am Mittwoch, 24. Juli 2024 02:41:12 CEST schrieb Gary Buhrmaster: And, FWIW, it appears that qtwebkit has been FTBFS since F39, so qtwebkit could end up being a moot point. It built fine in the F39 mass rebuild, only started failing in the F40 one. So it is NOT in the list of packages to be re

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2024-07-23)

2024-07-23 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Am Mittwoch, 24. Juli 2024 02:52:44 CEST schrieb Gary Buhrmaster: On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 10:38 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: And this one is yet another case of FESCo rubberstamping a change without even any dissenting vote despite loads of negative mailing list feedback. How can one

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2024-07-23)

2024-08-01 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > The approved/second/reworked version of this _did_ take lots of people's > concerns into account. There were/are still some few people who still > didn't like it for whatever reasons, but I think it's pretty clear that > concerns were defintely heard. The change owners were ver

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2024-07-23)

2024-08-01 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: > I just can't agree with this statement---both in some deep philosophical > sense and in practical terms. F is for First! Yes, the changes are > sometimes annoying---I miss my FreeCAD :(---but, overall, I think Fedora > has a track record of consistently advancin

Re: [Java related] packaging Italian ID card middleware

2024-08-04 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Björn Persson wrote: > I wish I were allowed to use FIDO2. The dominant ID protocol in Sweden > is called BankID. It's a proprietary and secretive protocol that > requires a proprietary app that requires an operating system from > either Apple or Google – or sometimes Microsoft, but in many cases n

Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2024-07-23)

2024-08-04 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > I am not making any such assumputions. Let me be clear (and speaking > only for myself): > > Changes are not always good > Not every unacceptable/rejected change can be reworked to be acceptable. > > Where did I say otherwise? The "Not every unacceptable/rejected change can

Re: poppler soname bump in Rawhide

2024-08-23 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Jan Grulich wrote: > The reason for this is that qt5-qtwebengine copies over re2 header files, > but that doesn't mean it links against the system version, it still uses > the bundled one anyway. The way it was SUPPOSED to work was that the header hack was supposed to be applied together with an

Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2024-09-10)

2024-09-14 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Josh Boyer wrote: > Yes, but people could just use HTML mail as well. I'm far too lazy to > deal with multiple syncs across devices and phones, and other online > clients suffer from the same problems. Huh? Is it not the point of IMAP that everything happens on the server, there is nothing to sy

Re: Intent to retire OpenCOLLADA

2023-07-02 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
l...@fedoraproject.org wrote: > In this case, OpenCOLLADA can be retired on Rawhide as Blender no longer > explicitely requires it for building. That by itself is not a reason for fast-track retiring the library. Kevin Kofler ___ devel mailing l

Re: Orphaning packages (was LibreOffice packages)

2023-07-02 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Peter Robinson wrote: > Assuming those "binary compatible distributions" choose to add > LibreOffice back in and support it, given what they actually do in > terms of actual development it's actually pretty unlikely they're > going to do all the extra work to add back an office suite and all the >

Re: Orphaning packages (was LibreOffice packages)

2023-07-02 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Peter Robinson wrote: > Someone doing work in EPEL is quite a bit different to my point of a > corporate organisation downstream of RHEL adding value and > differentiation that Red Hat doesn't provide as part of RHEL. The discussion was about people being able or unable to obtain the LibreOffice

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