On 24 August 2016 at 02:10, Jason L Tibbitts III <ti...@math.uh.edu> wrote: >>>>>> "PV" == Petr Viktorin <pvikt...@redhat.com> writes: > > PV> - Make it standard practice in Fedora to use this data and treat the > PV> spec file as an immutable generated artifact. > > If you're saying that any changes which are made to the spec file (say, > by release engineering doing a rebuild or by someone tweaking the > package for pretty much any reason) will be overwritten, this is not a > particularly good idea.
I think it's the direction we should be aiming to go, though - creating snowflake Python packages in a pyp2rpm world should be as questionable a decision as creating a snowflake server is in an Ansible world. If a stock standard "dump some files in site-packages, and maybe install a command line entry point") Python project cannot be automatically rebased and the spec file regenerated without losing any data, then that's either a failure to upstream a metadata fix, or else a problem to be addressed in the spec file generator. Folks should still have a way to say "this project is a special snowflake, and I am going to carefully curate the spec file by hand", but they should also have to opt in to that, rather than having it as the default (just as all deployed servers should be under configuration management by default, and people have to turn that off if they want their local modifications to stick). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
