Bug 1528781
| Summary: | Review Request: mpfr - multiple-precision floating-point computations [needs sponsor] | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | James Paul Turner <jamesturner246> |
| Component: | Package Review | Assignee: | Pavel Cahyna <pcahyna> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | jamesturner246, package-review, pcahyna |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Flags: | pcahyna:
fedora-review?
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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| Last Closed: | 2018-03-06 18:53:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 177841 | ||
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Description
James Paul Turner
2017-12-24 01:10:38 UTC
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/mpfr > Summary: A C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations The leading "A C" is a example of a summary where the leading article is superfluous and reduces readability. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Examples_of_good_package_summaries > BuildRequires: autoconf libtool gmp-devel Requiring gmp-devel is a hint that it links with libgmp somehow. > Requires: gmp >= 4.2.3 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires > Requires(post): /sbin/ldconfig > Requires(postun): /sbin/ldconfig With the scriptlets running /sbin/ldconfig directly, there are automatic dependencies on /sbin/ldconfig. > %package devel > Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release} https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requiring_Base_Package > Requires(post): /sbin/install-info > Requires(preun): /sbin/install-info Also see the %post and %preun sections. There are official scripts for a long time: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Scriptlets#Texinfo > If you want to develop applications which will use the MPFR library, > you'll need to install the mpfr-devel package. You'll also need to > install the mpfr package. Redundant instructions. mpfr is installed automatically due to dependencies. Michael. Thank you for your feedback. I have initiated the unresponsive packager procedure: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1529827 I have also made changes to the specfile which hopefully fix the previous issues. Furthermore, I have also updated MPFR to the just-released version 4.0.0. Specfile: https://jamesturner246.fedorapeople.org/mpfr-4.0.0/mpfr.spec SRPM: https://jamesturner246.fedorapeople.org/mpfr-4.0.0/mpfr-4.0.0-1.fc28.src.rpm Do respond if any issues remain - it is appreciated. All the best, James. I forgot the Koji build: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=23945790 There is an API change in MPFR 4, see http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/#changes (also its soname changes to libmpfr.so.6). Given that quite a lot of packages depend on mpfr, are they ready to cope with this API change? See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/mpfr-4.0.0 and https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7247 I looked at how the Ruby_2.5 folks were handling things, and they seemed to have a nice plan. The packages can be rebuilt and tested in a separate Koji tag, such that, if there are any problems, the tag can simply be deleted without merging. I will test and take care of the possible reintroduction of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515958 once we have the tag. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1537252 *** |