Bug 2170550

Summary:	EPEL7 - rxvt-unicode package contains no data
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	JButler <fattredd>
Component:	rxvt-unicode	Assignee:	Carl George 🤠 <carl>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	epel7	CC:	amurdaca, andreas.bierfert, carl, dcantrell, rharwood
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Description JButler 2023-02-16 17:03:45 UTC

Description of problem:
The current release of rxvt-unicode on epel7 is an empty rpm.
(rxvt-unicode-9.30-2.el7.x86_64.rpm)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
9.30-2.el7

How reproducible:
Very

Steps to Reproduce:
`rpm -qp rxvt-unicode-9.30-2.el7.x86_64.rpm -info`
shows that the package size is `0`

Actual results:
Size : 0

Expected results:
The package contains some files, else it shouldn't exist in EPEL7 at all

Additional info:
The maintainer has mentioned in the patch notes that he is no longer planning on updating this package. If that's the case, new versions should not be published, rather than empty packages being published

* Fri Dec 16 2022 Robbie Harwood <rharwood> - 9.30-1
- Drop package to be just terminfo file
- Newer versions of libptytty don't build on epel7, and on epel I only care
  about the terminfo file anyway.  If you wish for this to be packaged fully
  again, we either need 9.30 + libptytty patched to build, or a fix for
  CVE-2022-4170.

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2101455

Comment 1 Robbie Harwood 2023-02-16 18:08:45 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2160952 ***

Comment 2 Robbie Harwood 2023-02-16 18:09:30 UTC

The change is clearly intended, as per the changelog you quoted.  I'm really not sure what you hoped to accomplish by showing it to me.

Comment 3 JButler 2023-02-16 18:23:49 UTC

Intended, sure. But why publish an empty package? It's existence implies that it's functional, and it's not obvious why things aren't working unless you dig into a changelogs. I'd argue that the package simply shouldn't exist if it's going to be empty.

Comment 4 Robbie Harwood 2023-02-16 18:35:47 UTC

It depends on the -terminfo subpackage.

Comment 5 JButler 2023-02-16 18:53:37 UTC

If people want to just get the -terminfo, they should install just the -terminfo. At the moment the primary package's existence implies that I can run `urxvt` when it's installed, and that's not the case.  
  
Yes, the package does do _something_, but it's not what people will expect it to do.  
  
Of course that's just my opinion. I can respect your decision if you feel otherwise.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2023-09-29 20:09:24 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2023-a99c56df6a has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2023-a99c56df6a

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2023-09-30 03:42:13 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2023-a99c56df6a has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2023-a99c56df6a

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2023-10-08 00:34:40 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2023-a99c56df6a has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.