On Sun, 2026-02-15 at 14:05 +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote: > Andreas Haupt venit, vidit, dixit 2026-02-15 09:30:08: > > Dear all, > > > > I'm wondering how to package lesspipe for Fedora/EPEL best. Review request > > is here: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2417806 > > > > lesspipe itself is an indepedent development from the built-in preprocessor > > for less. It comes with with a rich feature set which enhances the less user > > experience. Features are described here: > > > > https://lesspipe.org/docs.html > > > > Unfortunately, as it uses the same concept like less' built-in preprocessor, > > it conflicts with its lesspipe.sh script. Therefore I just moved stuff into > > /usr/libexec/lesspipe in order to avoid naming conflicts. This works well, > > but Christian Le pointed out in the review, it might cause user trouble in > > some cases. > > Which problems? It's not clear to me from the review. Users of less and > LESSOPEN should be technically versed enough to set LESSOPEN in the > environment of all process which they want to use it. > > That being said, the "less" package in Fedora already ships > "lesspipe.sh" from an external source (not the builtin)
Note this is a relatively recent change: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308285 I wasn't that keen on it either, but ultimately it was the packager's choice, and they addressed the immediate breakage it caused. -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @[email protected] https://www.happyassassin.net -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
