F40 Change Proposal: Restructure Kubernetes Packages

2023-08-24 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
== Summary == New or revised (sub)package names are proposed for Kubernetes packages in Fedora. The new names will better align Kubernetes with current usage as documented upstream and improve alignment of package content with current Fedora practices and standards. See https://discussion.fedorap

F40 Change Proposal: SQLAlchemy 2

2023-08-24 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
== Summary == The python-sqlalchemy package is upgraded to major version 2. A compatibility package python-sqlalchemy1.4 is added to the distribution to cater for software which doesn’t yet use the new API, this can be installed side-by-side. Other packages using SQLAlchemy are identified and, if n

Fedora 31: an update with "dnf module reset eclipse" on its way to users

2020-03-24 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
tl;dr: a scriptlet has been added to the fedora-release package that performs a _one time_ "dnf module reset eclipse" operation when fedora-release is upgraded. The update that does this is now in bodhi [1]. This was decided in a FESCo ticket [2] to solve bugzilla #1780827 [3] and has a "F31 Commo

new non-responsive maintainer policy

2019-09-26 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
A new non-responsive maintainer policy has been approved [1]. This announcement is a bit late because it took a while to update the documentation and add all the necessary templates in bugzilla. The new policy is at [2] (diff [3]). tl;dr: When a maintainer is not responding to bug reports, to sta

mass-removal of LANG=anything-not-C.UTF-8 in packages

2018-11-06 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Dear maintainers, I'm working again on implementing https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_glibc-langpacks-all_from_buildroot. The first step is to replace LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 with LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 (and similarly for LANG=, LC_CTYPE=, etc.) in all spec files. This will be backwards and forward

New policy for orphaning/retiring packages with open security bugs

2018-09-04 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
FESCo accepted [1] a new policy to handle packages with long-standing known security bugs in a way similar to FTBFS bugs: AGREED: If a CRITICAL or IMPORTANT security issue is currently open against a package, or a security issue of lower severity has been open for at least 6 months, four wee

[fesco] Updated FTBFS package policy

2018-05-25 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Fedora package maintainers, FESCo approved an updated policy for packages which fail to build from source during mass rebuilds (FTBFS) [1]. The updated policy is still at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fails_to_build_from_source. Highlights: - packages which FTBFS are subject to orphaning if t

[UPDATE] Re: Mass package change (python2- binary package renaming)

2017-08-14 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
at the same time as other packages.) For some packages I also renamed the python3 subpackage manually, and/or added %python_provides for it. Updated patches: https://in.waw.pl/~zbyszek/fedora/pyrename/ Zbyszek On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 10:14:26PM +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > He

Mass package change (python2- binary package renaming)

2017-08-08 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
ed to add changelog entries will be added that look like: * Sat Aug 05 2017 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek - 3.3-4 - Python 2 binary package renamed to python2-foobar See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FinalizingFedoraSwitchtoPython3 ### Which packages need to change ### http://fedora.portingd