Just to illustrate what this is about, these are 3 PR trying to fix the branches for next RHEL:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rubygem-ruby-rc4/pull-request/1 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rubygem-Ascii85/pull-request/1 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rubygem-nokogiri/pull-request/1 Non of them is correct, because they are not maintained. If there were no branches, it would be much better. V. Dne 20.1.2018 v 12:27 Igor Gnatenko napsal(a): > Hello, > > I know that many of you like to have just one branch which builds > everywhere > (starting from el6), but this really slows down development of Fedora > for many > years. Let me show some examples: > > * File-triggers are not supported by el6/el7 RPM, so every package > which has > icons should have some number of scriptlets conditionalized by %if > 0%{?rhel} > && 0%{?rhel} <= 7. > * Rich dependencies are not supported by el6/el7 RPM and YUM, so > anyone who > wants to use them need to have same conditionals. > * Some of dependency generators do not exist on el*, so instead of having > BuildRequires: python3dist(foo) you need to wrap it with conditions > again and > I'm working on change proposal which eliminates need of writing runtime > requirements, so one more place of conditionals. > > Given all these, it is very hard to get any new feature in > "production" because > everyone wants to support 10 years old thing (even if they don't think > so). > > Even if people hope next version of EL will be better in this, it > doesn't mean > that el6/el7 can be fixed easily. > > > Why I'm writing this? I want to hear from you if you think it would be > good to > prohibit (or advise, or whatever mechanism would work) usage if > conditionals in > (at least) master branch to allow us to develop features faster. Thoughts? > Suggestions? > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
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