On Thu, Jan 2, 2020, 12:15 Artem Tim <[email protected]> wrote:

> No prob. :) But i didn't received any notification so this could be
> upsetting a little bit if package was retired. Community barely fixed crash
> dump recently [1] and Fedora users before often write me on email with
> various questions, so this makes me believe that app is not useless and
> users interesting in it.
>

(snip)

And as for Recommends in spec file yes, this my bad and this not allowed
> but i believed that soon this will be legal [2].
>

No, that is definitely not the case. W (the FPC and spot) concluded that
specifying *any* requirements (be it hard or weak dependencies) that can
only be fulfilled outside the fedora repos is a no-go, especially for
patent-encumbered software like ffmpeg. Which is, for example, why the
automatic dependency generator for R needed to be adjusted.

Fabio


> > Indeed, a more descriptive error
> > would be nice (and, maybe, viewable in a window message, not only from
> CLI).
>
> Adding 'gnome-shell' as hard dependency could be easiest way to fix but i
> believe we don't want this because this install many gnome packages so
> let's try move in this direction [3] until we come up with something better.
>
> [1] https://github.com/phw/peek/issues/419
> [2] https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/914#comment-607823
> [3] https://github.com/phw/peek/issues/539
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