Re: [Rpm-maint] Reserve ALT RPM tags range

2018-02-28 Thread Panu Matilainen 

On 02/28/2018 12:03 AM, Vladimir D. Seleznev wrote:

Hello, rpm-maint@!

We in ALT Linux Team implemented some new RPM tags for our RPM package
header and RPM database. Since RPM tags are numerical identifiers and we
want to keep compatibility with mainstream RPM tools and packages, we
are requesting to reserve some RPM tag range for our purpose (around 100
RPM tags) to avoid the collision with RPM tag numbers, that can possibly
will be added to rpm.org in the future.


Yes we can reserve tags, it's not like we're going to run out of 32bit 
integers anytime soon. However we're not going to foster distro 
proprietary development & forks by blindly handing you 100 "do whatever 
you want" tags. That's not how this works.


If a feature is interesting to Alt, there's more than a slight change 
it's interesting to others as well, so you should always initially 
target getting the thing upstream. The price of tag reservations is 
discussing your plans upstream first, either here on rpm-maint or GH 
ticket/PR.


- Panu -
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Re: [Rpm-maint] Reserve ALT RPM tags range

2018-02-28 Thread Neal Gompa 
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Vladimir D. Seleznev
 wrote:
> Hello, rpm-maint@!
>
> We in ALT Linux Team implemented some new RPM tags for our RPM package
> header and RPM database. Since RPM tags are numerical identifiers and we
> want to keep compatibility with mainstream RPM tools and packages, we
> are requesting to reserve some RPM tag range for our purpose (around 100
> RPM tags) to avoid the collision with RPM tag numbers, that can possibly
> will be added to rpm.org in the future.
>

Can you propose a patch series as a pull request at
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pulls ?

Or send an email patch series?

Also, 100 tags? What did you implement?


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