On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 06:22:44AM +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 04:43:09PM -0600, Jerry James wrote:
> > I made the possibly controversial decision to write opam2rpm in
> > python. I did this so that I could borrow code and ideas from other
> > spec file generators, many of which are written in python. If this
> > proves to be a sticking point with the other OCaml package
> > maintainers, I am not opposed to porting it to OCaml, but will need a
> > fair amount of help to do so.
> I don't think this should be controversial. Both ocaml and python are
> good languages to write this kind of tool, but what's more important is
> dependencies and prior art that can be copied. And python wins in this
> regard because of all the other converters that are already there.
>
> > The current version owes much to go2rpm. Thank you, go2rpm developers!
> > 6. Talk to the go2rpm developers about breaking licensing.py and
> > spdx_to_fedora.csv out into a separate project. Note that I fixed
> > some incorrect LGPL entries in the version in opam2rpm.
>
> No, please don't do that. go2rpm should not have done that either.
https://pagure.io/GoSIG/go2rpm/pull-request/12
> The original location of licensing.py is in rust2rpm, and it should not
> be copied. It is an importable python module:
> >>> from rust2rpm import licensing
> >>> licensing.translate_license_fedora('GPL-2.0 or GPL-2.0-or-later')
> >>>
> Upstream license tag GPL-2.0 translated to GPLv2
> Upstream license tag GPL-2.0-or-later translated to GPLv2+
> ('GPLv2 or GPLv2+', None)
>
> It gets occasionally updated when people report missing licenses or
> translation bugs, and having _multiple_ copies in the distro is just
> going to lead to frustration.
>
> If there's anything missing or broken in the canonical version, please
> open a bug against rust2rpm.
>
> Longer-term, I think the licensing submodule could become more
> prominent and a top-level thing of its own. The data should be
> converted from CSV to something sane. We should try to coalesce all
> the other redundant lists of licenses, including
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Software_License_List.
>
> Zbyszek
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