On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 09:26:09AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 03:52:34AM -0500, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 04:17:13PM +0100, Peter Krempa via Devel wrote:
> > > +# Starting with Fedora 43 the 'zfs-fuse' is no longer shipped but
> > > obtainable
> > > +# externally. The package builds fine without these. Users will have to
> > > provide
> > > +# their own implementation.
> > > + %if 0%{?fedora} && 0%{?fedora} < 43
> > > Requires: /sbin/zfs
> > > Requires: /sbin/zpool
> > > + %endif
> >
> > Can we make these Recommends in F43+ instead of dropping the
> > dependency entirely? I'm not sure how the automatic package checks
> > would handle that, but it's what we do in Debian in order to provide
> > at least some hint to the user that additional packages are needed to
> > actually make the package usable.
>
> That is not permitted
>
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/WeakDependencies/
>
> "As with regular dependencies, weak dependencies MUST be satisfiable
> within the official Fedora repositories."
Welp, never mind then :)
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
