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/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?

Isn't there also an exception for reviving a retired package within a
certain window?
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA
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