On 09. 06. 22 21:26, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2022-06-09 at 21:09 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've recently seen a package that was imported into Fedora without a package
> review. I've noticed this because the packages doesn't even install and I
> wanted to check if this could have been caught in the package review but I
> couldn't find it, so I've checked the fedora-scm-requests ticket.
>
> The ticket at fedora-scm-requests was created with exception=true. I am not
> going to link to it, because I am not here to point fingers. I am just
> genuinely curious.
>
> According to
>
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/ReviewGuideline...
> we have 3 kinds of exceptions:
>
> - FPC grants an explicit exemption from the process...
> - The package is being created so that multiple versions of the same package
> can coexist in the distribution...
> - The package exists in both Fedora and RHEL, but the packager wants to ship it
> in EPEL under an alternative name...
>
> In those cases, the packager requests the repo with --exception, makes sense.
>
> However, who checks if the flag was used according to the rules? Because
> apparently, is seems that nobody does. Is it expected that we are all
> responsible people who would not abuse this simply to avoid package reviews?
Isn't there also an exception for reviving a retired package within a
certain window?
Yes, but unretiring does not involve fedpkg request-repo and
fedora-scm-requests tickets. It involves a releng ticket and relengs do check
if the rules are met in that case.
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