Update of the fish package

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 01/08/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 August 2006 07:43, Laurent Rineau wrote:
> > I don't understand the point. As an upstream developper of CGAL¹, for
> > example, I would prefere that the spec file for Fedora is the same as the
> > one we use internally to generate development snapshots. Yes the resulting
> > spec file is quite an advanced one, because of that. But if I can prove
> > that I have written it, and can maintain it, what is the problem, from the
> > FE point of view? The resulting RPMs are not bloated because of the
> > complexity of the src.rpm file.
>
> Because when a security flaw comes around and you're not there to fix it,
> somebody else has to be able to understand your spec and be able to massage a
> patch into it.
>
> Ditto for a forced rebuild, or for any number of things.  This is a community
> project, you have to think in terms of somebody else being able to maintain
> your spec file, so you'll want to make it as easy as possible for somebody to
> do this, and that means clean as possible specs and as less complicated as
> possible.

This is of course a very strong argument that is hard to disagree
with. The fact we're having this discussion though reflects a lack of
a firm decision on the matter and a solid packaging guideline
reflecting the outcome of that decision. I would take this to the
FESCO meeting, but I am never able to have IRC connection during FESCO
meeting times (work restrictions). Hopefully someone else will bring
it up.

Jonathan.