On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 3:09 PM Miro Hrončok <[email protected]> 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/ReviewGuidelines/#_package_review_process > 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. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
