On 09. 06. 22 21:11, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 3:09 PM Miro Hrončok
<mhroncok(a)redhat.com> 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?
>
On a basic level, I'm kind of surprised we don't have an exception
reason flag to ensure that the choice is being validated by someone. I
don't know how you'd validate it right now.
Makes perfect sense. E.g. this could even be a free form text passed to
exception that could be something like:
- link to fpc ticket
- alternate version exception, other packages are foobar2.0 and foobar3.0
- EPEL alternate name exception, RHEL package is foobar
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