All maven RPM builds no longer possible

Hi all, I just tried to start from "probably simplest spec file possible” as described below in order to package a maven artefact properly as an RPM: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/java-packaging-howto/packaging_maven_project/ The build failed because the maven-javadoc-plugin package no

Request for help with sponsor: retry

Hi all, I’ve had a review of the retry tool at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2017119, but I need help with a sponsor. Happy to try review some other packages in return, but will need a bit of hand holding. Regards, Graham — ___ devel

Re: This is bad, was Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: systemd-resolved

On 29 Sep 2020, at 23:44, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > This is either a very strange misunderstanding, or trolling. I will assume > positive intent. Internet RFCs are not regulatory requirements. If you're > aware of some government regulation that requires us to forward RRSEC > records, I

Re: This is bad, was Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: systemd-resolved

On 29 Sep 2020, at 22:04, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 4:51 pm, Petr Menšík wrote: >> Anyway, we might forgive working dnssec validation. What we cannot >> forgive is lack of DNSSEC information passtrough in 2020. > > I agree this should be fixed. See >

Re: Gitlab Ask Me Anything - Sept 10th, 13:30 UTC

On 05 Sep 2020, at 17:40, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 05:14:21PM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: >> That's an interesting choice. Isn't it a bit of a waste to put all of the >> resources into Pagure for so long, only to jump over to GitLab? > > This is called the "sunk cost

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

On 19 Feb 2019, at 12:03, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > Greetings packagers, > > I know how important RPM is to the Fedora Project, but it breaks > everything downstream and we'd be better off using DPKG as we should > have from day one. DPKG solved the packaging problem, but was particularly

Re: Attention Gmail users, please turn off HTML mail

On 04 Oct 2018, at 23:32, Matthew Miller wrote: > The fact is, the world has moved away from quoted mail with inline replies. > Top posting rules basically everywhere except hold-out old-school mailing > lists. Gmail, both on the web and _especially_ on mobile, makes it almost > impossible to do

Re: Nonresponsive maintainer: Björn Esser (besser82)

On 16 Aug 2018, at 13:28, Miro Hrončok wrote: > Björn Esser (besser82) is not responsive. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1610811 It’s August, I’m guessing they’re on a well deserved holiday. > Anyone knows how to contact the maintainer? Definitely not like this: "Do

Re: Proposal: Reduce *-devel packages dependencies on other unneeded *-devel packages

On 11 Aug 2018, at 20:58, Robert Marcano wrote: > Current *-devel packages tend to pull a lot of dependencies, probably to make > developers life easier, but I think some of them are not needed. Do you think they’re not needed, or are you sure they’re not needed? Regards, Graham —

Re: Removal of sln

On 16 Feb 2018, at 11:53 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I also don't think rather fundamental, useful and old tools like this > should be removed without discussion. +1. While the foundations for your house might be old, taking a sledgehammer to those foundations without

Re: Wyland is a disaster

On 20 Jan 2018, at 8:24 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: >> I'm sorry, but wyland is a disaster for me. I do work on lots >> of different software platforms, and things are just not working well. >> They kind-of-work, which is the really worst condition one can have. > >

Re: What to I have to do....

On 12 Dec 2017, at 2:44 PM, Philip Kovacs wrote: > > >Artistic (volatile) temperament” is just a euphemistic way of saying > >“engages in unchecked abusive behaviour toward their peers”, and no member > >of the community should be expected to bend over backwards to >tolerate

Re: What to I have to do....

On 09 Dec 2017, at 8:21 PM, Philip Kovacs wrote: > I am opposed to allowing PP unfettered access to projects in which the > maintainer(s) > are responsive. It's common for developers to have artistic (volatile) > temperaments , > like a painter who paints on canvas owned

Re: What to I have to do....

On 07 Dec 2017, at 5:31 PM, Steve Dickson wrote: > Where committed to the master branch and not to any other > branch make the maintenance of those branches a pain > because I can no longer cherry-pick between branches. > I have to make multiple commits to multiple branches >

Re: floppy-support being retired (was: Retiring Packages with Broken Dependencies in branched (2017-06-26))

On 28 Jun 2017, at 11:09 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Björn Persson wrote: >> t...@fedoraproject.org wrote: >>> floppy-support bruno 162 weeks ago >> >> So are floppies now

Re: F26 System Wide Change: OpenSSL 1.1.0

On 29 Sep 2016, at 08:51, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: > I'd like to underline the part _preferrably the version recommended by > upstream_ of Packaging:CryptoPolicies. I believe it is best for us to > use the code that upstream primarily considers best for the > application.

Re: F26 System Wide Change: OpenSSL 1.1.0

On 28 Sep 2016, at 4:13 PM, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > BTW openssl changes. > It would be good to form kind of official guidline about using those > alternative libraries and start pushing to use only one. This is not always possible. I spent a long time debugging

Self Introduction: Graham Leggett

Hi all, Doing the obligatory introduction :) I am a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and on the PMCs of the httpd and apr projects where amongst other things I maintain the out-of-the-box RPM packaging for both projects. I would like to see more of the Apache module ecosystem easily