On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 10:12 PM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello Pythonistas,
>
> today, I've looked up packages in rawhide providing python3dist(...) = 0
> and I
> opened bugzillas for them:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=python3dist0
>
> While version 0 (or equal versions like 0.0 or 0.0.0) is probably
> technically
> valid, it most certainly indicates a packaging error (most likely but not
> necessarily a downstream packaging error).
>
> Should we prevent this error from happening by explicitly erroring (and
> failing
> the build) when it happens? I think it would make the dependency
> generators
> more robust.
>
> In an unlikely scenario when packagers actually want to package version 0,
> they
> can reach out and we can allow it via some configuration (but [YAGNI], so
> I
> don't want to clutter the generator with yet another option right away).
>
> [YAGNI] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
>
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Makes a lot of sense to error out the build in this case.

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Regards,

Charalampos Stratakis
Senior Software Engineer
Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat
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