On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 15:39 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 3:32 PM Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > > Most of those are the libcroco->gettext breakage, no?
> > > > 
> > > > From a very cursory scan (not at all scientific),
> > > > some percentage are the cmake macro changes.
> > > 
> > > CMake macros are documented in the packaging guidelines:
> > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/CMake/
> > > 
> > > Here's an example of how to adjust it:
> > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/alembic/c/83812e6c762c28c7e2141860711a3598c101256f
> > 
> > The changes should have landed _BEFORE_ mass rebuild, if the change
> > owner didn't have the permissions they should have done PRs for all
> > the packages rather than having zero direct comms to affected
> > package
> > owners and having them find out of a change needed post mass
> > rebuild
> > when they get generic FTBFS bugs.
> > 
> > Now people have even more work to do for the unexpected mess :-(
> 
> For what it's worth, I've spent almost every single weekend
> alternating between this change and the Btrfs one. I wound up also
> having to implement the EPEL7 and EPEL8 macros (that were out of
> scope
> of the change, but I did it anyway because people complained). Igor
> and myself had been working on doing the updates each weekend we
> could, however my internet connectivity to Dist-Git and Koji had been
> troublesome for the past few weekends, and that has made working on
> it
> hard.

Thanks for doing the EPEL macros! That was one of the major concerns
with the initial change proposal, if I recall the discussion.

I'm fixing one of my package now (et) since there's an update for it
last week that I want to push out anyway, and being able to use the
same macros on EPEL8 is really nice.

Regards,

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