I'm looking to package some GTK themes. Those themes come in several colour variants. The author decided on a workflow where, instead of keeping variants alongside each other in the tree, each variant has its own git branch.
When working with git snapshots, the packaging guidelines [1] say to put the snapshot data in the Release: field. This is simple enough when working with a single "main" source, but what when there's multiple sources? A solution could be to put each colour variant into a subpackage, and make the "main" package a file-less package that just Requires: all the colour variants. This way, each subpackage can have a different Release: tag. However, doing this messes with rpmdev-bumpspec, which gets confused and slaps ".1" at the end of each subpackage's Release: tag, which in turn makes the Requires: unsatisfiable. I could, alternatively, put the snapshot data in each subpackage's Version: tag, but this goes against the Guidelines. I could also just pretend that there's only one source, ship everything as one package, and only use the snapshot info for the "main" branch. Though this is a rather inelegant approach. So, I guess my question is: what would be the preferred approach? [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Versioning/#_snapshots _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
