Dne 17. 12. 19 v 21:57 David Cantrell napsal(a): > With regard to the recent protobuf package issue and the eclipse > module, I > started wondering how bugs work with packages bundled in modules. > That is, > packages that exist outside modules (e.g., protobuf) that end up > bundled with > some module. > > NOTE: It is very easy for module posts to quickly balloon out in to > all sorts > of topics and stories. I would prefer that we keep this thread > related to the > Subject above. Thanks. > > The following are policy questions I came up with after the protobuf > issue > happened: > > 1) Are modules allowed to bundle packages that are provided by and > currently > maintained in the base system? Are there are restrictions to what a > module > can bundle (e.g., can a module bundle glibc)? > > 2) Using protobuf as an example, if a bug is found by a user and they > happen > to deduce that the error is in protobuf, how do they file a bug? Do > they file > the bug against protobuf if the bundled one from the module has the > issue? > What maintainer is on the hook for handling that bug report? My > assumption > here is that the module maintainer is ultimately responsible for > everything > they bundle. Another concern I see here is we are opening ourselves > up for > N+1 different builds of protobuf where N is the number of modules > installed on > a system and all of them could have protobuf bundled. > > 3) If a user files a bug against a module and the module maintainer > triages > that to a bundled package, how is that handled? Who is maintaining the > bundled build of that package? Who is responsible for fixing it?
These are two very interesting points. Just FTR, for Red Hat Software Collections, we are (ab)using "Version" BZ field to track the SCL version (e.g. [1]), which in module terminology resembles stream. Maybe we could reuse something similar for modules in Fedora. Also, it is interesting that AFAIK, we have not yet dealt with issue like this (i.e. reporting issues against specific streams) for RHEL8 yet. Vít [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1757842 > > 4) How can users determine what packages are installed from a module > and how > can you see what, if any, module "owns" a package? I have been unable to > determine how to do this from dnf. > > 5) How are CVEs handled for packages that are also bundled with a module? > > I have read as much as I can find about how things work right now with > modules, but that has been mostly the "how" and nothing around policy. > > Thanks, > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
