devel-announce February 2016

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Fedora 24 Mass Branching
by Fedora Release Engineering 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

Hi All, Fedora 24 has been branched, please be sure to do a git pull --rebase to pick up the new branch, as an additional reminder rawhide/f25 has been completely isolated from previous releases, so this means that anything you do for f24 you also have to do in the master branch and do a build there. There has been a few issues in the transition we are still working on. There is a Fedora 24 compose that has been pushed to http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/24/ http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/development/24/ Please be sure to check it out Release Enginnering

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[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines
by Jason L Tibbitts III 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines. ----- Some PHP scriptlets are now unnecessary in F24 due to the use of file triggers. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP#PECL_Modules * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/597 ----- A page describing the implementation of Langpacks for F23 and newer has been added to the guidelines, and various other pages have been updated to reference it. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Langpacks * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/593

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[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines
by Jason L Tibbitts III 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines. ----- A section on the treatment of pregenerated code has been added to the main guideline page. *https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Use_of_pregenerated_code *https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/580 ----- Text was added to the section on spec legibility indicating that non Fedora/EPEL macros should not be used in Fedora specfiles. *https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Spec_Legibility *https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/582 ----- The node.js guidelines have gained a requirement for a %check section which at minimam ensures that the module is loadable. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Node.js#Build_testing_in_.25check * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/583 ----- The AppData guidelines were updated to reflect the current version of the AppData standard. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AppData * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/584 ----- Information about requesting bootstrapping exceptions, including blanket exceptions, was added to the committee page. *https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging_Committee#Bootstrapping_Exception_Procedure *https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/585 ----- The systemd scriptlet guidelines were cleaned up to use correct links and fix some typos. *https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Scriptlets * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/590 ----- A reference to the EPEL packaging guidelines was added to the main guidelines page. *https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_for_EPEL *https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL:Packaging *https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/599 ----- The shared library section of the guidelines has been updated to refer to a separate page on ABI comparison tools. *https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Shared_Libraries *https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_check_for_ABI_changes_in_a_package * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/579 ----- A new page for guidelines specific to C and C++ has been added. *https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:C_and_C%2B%2B?rd=C_and_C++ *https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/540 ----- The submodules section of the SourceURL guideline page was simplified to use git --recursive. *https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Git_Submodules *https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/547

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Planned Outage: fedorapeople.org - 2016-02-11 16:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 10 Feb '16

10 Feb '16

Planned Outage: fedorapeople.org - 2016-02-11 16:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2016-02-11 16:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2016-02-11 16:00 UTC' Reason for outage: We are migrating fedorapeople.org to a new instance to allow for hardware reconfiguration on the server its currently on. Downtime should be short to allow for a final sync and cut over. Affected Services: fedorapeople.org fedoraplanet.org Services not listed are not affected by this outage. Contact Information: Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/5104 Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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F24 Self Contained Change: Drop php-pear dependency for pecl modules
by Jan Kurik 10 Feb '16

10 Feb '16

= Proposed Self Contained Change: Drop php-pear dependency for pecl modules = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/drop_pear_dep Change owner(s): * Remi Collet All PECL packaged modules (php-pecl-*) have a unneeded runtime dependency on php-pear, for module registration in package scriptlets. == Detailed Description == * Each pecl module package uses scriptlet which use the pecl command, so requires php-pear at runtime. * php-pear is a dying project, and most of users don't need/want it. * Replace the scriptlets in pecl package by file triggers in the php-pear package. == Scope == Proposal owners: * Replace the scriptlets in pecl package by file triggers in the php-pear package. Other developers: * cleanup pecl module, not mandatory (scriptlets are now noop) Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change) Policies and guidelines: * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/597 Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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evolution-data-server soname version bump in rawhide the next week
by Milan Crha 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

Hi, the 3.19.90 release of evolution-data-server changes soname version for camel, due to some API changes related to introspection support. I will rebuild packages for which I have commit rights, the same as I can help with the API change fixes, thus feel free to ping me or drop an e-mail. I do not think that other than core Evolution packages will need more attention, others might be simply rebuild. Bye, Milan

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Planned Outage: Copr upgrade - 2016-02-11 08:00 UTC
by Miroslav Suchý 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

There will be an outage starting at 2016-02-11 08:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2016-02-11 08:00 UTC' Reason for outage: We need to reprovision Copr servers. Affected Services: copr.fedoraproject.org copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org copr-keygen.cloud.fedoraproject.org copr-dist-git.cloud.fedoraproject.org Services not listed are not affected by this outage. Contact Information: msuchy(a)redhat.com Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/5097 Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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F24 Self Contained Change: Let's Encrypt client now in Fedora
by Jan Kurik 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

= Proposed Self Contained Change: Let's Encrypt client now in Fedora = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LetsEncrypt#Scope Change owner(s): * Nick Bebout <nb AT fedoraproject DOT org> *James Hogarth <jhogarth AT fedoraproject DOT org> * Nick Le Mouton <noodles AT fedoraproject DOT org> The Let's Encrypt client is now packaged in Fedora. This will allow Fedora users to easily install the Let's Encrypt client (letsencrypt) and generate free SSL certificates for their websites (or other services which use SSL) == Detailed Description == The Let's Encrypt client is now packaged in Fedora. This will allow Fedora users to easily install the Let's Encrypt client (letsencrypt) and generate free SSL certificates for their websites (or other services which use SSL) == Scope == Proposal owners: * To implement this Change Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change) Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change) List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change) Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change) Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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F24 Self Contained Change: System Python
by Jan Kurik 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

= Proposed Self Contained Change: System Python = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/System_Python Change owner(s): * Miro Hrončok <mhroncok AT redhat DOT com> * Petr Viktorin * Robert Kuska * Charalampos Stratakis Separate several subpackages form the python3 packages - a system-python(-libs) that can be required by various tools that consider themselves "system tools". == Detailed Description == python3 package to be split in several more subpackages: * system-python-libs - a subset of standard Python library considered essential to run "system tools" requiring Python * system-python - /usr/bin/system-python binary (interpreter) for the tools to be able to run, provides system-python(abi) * python3-libs brings in the remaining subset of standard Python library and will require system-python-libs, thus packages requiring it (directly or indirectly) will get the entire standard Python library * python3 still requires python3-libs and provides python(abi) The term "system tool" in this context means any package where a maintainer wishes to require system-python package instead of python3 package. Any package requiring "python(abi) = 3.x" (currently all Python modules and apps) will still bring in the entire standard library and thus will not be affected by this change in any way. Since this dependency is automatically generated, macros will be provided to remove it and depend on "system-python(abi) = 3.x" instead. If a package maintainer wishes to depend on system-python instead of python3 it is their responsibility to cooperate with the maintainers of all the Python dependencies of their package and do the same thing there. For example consider package foo requiring python3-bar; if foo's maintainer wishes to require system-python instead of python3, they must be sure to make sure python3-bar does this as well, otherwise the depednency chain would bring in python3 package anyway. == Scope == Proposal owners: * determine what the essential subset of the standard library is (investigate packages that later might become "system tools") * split the subset into a subpackage system-python-libs * create system-python binary and package * invent macros to change the requirement of python-abi * test if present packages requiring python3 or python-abi = 3.x work Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change) Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change) List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change) Policies and guidelines: * introduce a change to Python packaging guidelines for package maintainers to be able to profit from this change (after the implementation is ready) Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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Fedora 24 Mass Rebuild
by Dennis Gilmore 06 Feb '16

06 Feb '16

Hi all, Per the Fedora 24 schedule[1] we will be starting a mass rebuild for Fedora 24 very shortly. We are doing a mass rebuild for Fedora 24 for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GCC6 we will start the mass rebuild on 2016-02-03 This is a heads up that it will be done in a side tag and moved over when completed. We will be running scripts to output failure stats. please be sure to let releng know if you see any bugs in the reporting. You can contact releng in #fedora-releng on freenode. Failures can be seen http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/mass-rebuild/f24-failures.html Things still needing rebuilt http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/mass-rebuild/f24-need-rebuild.html Regards Dennis

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