https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2415364



--- Comment #2 from Rodolfo Olivieri <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Ben Beasley from comment #1)
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Rust/
> #_vendored_dependencies
> 
> “In general, packages SHOULD NOT use bundled crate dependencies, whenever
> possible.
> 
> “Whenever vendored / bundled crate dependencies are used (no matter which
> mechanism is used for the purpose), all bundled crate dependencies MUST be
> declared with virtual Provides in the format Provides:
> bundled(crate($crate)) = $version in the subpackage that contains the Rust
> component. For example, these virtual Provides are used to determine the
> impact of security vulnerabilities on packages that use vendored Rust
> dependencies.
> 
> “Building exclusively from vendored dependencies by using a tarball that was
> generated by running cargo vendor SHOULD only be a last resort. […]”
> 
> Is there a concrete technical reason for using vendored dependencies here? I
> know that RHEL vendors Rust dependencies as a matter of course, but this is
> Fedora. :-)
> 
> I also see a lot of “CC0-1.0” in the license expression, which needs close
> investigation to make sure it’s for content and not for code (with very
> limited exceptions,
> https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/blob/
> 56aeba99ba1b551e82b359bde277d1c51cc26e13/data/CC0-1.0.toml#L11-L26),
> particularly because the vendored dependency bundle may be bringing in
> things that have never been packaged in Fedora before.

Hi, Ben! 

I will double-check the vendored dependencies, that was a mistake on my part,
sorry. I definitely think there are a couple of those that are indeed present
in Fedora.

Regarding the CC0-1.0 license, I will check as well.


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