Created attachment 991820 [details] Patch of the gnome-common.spec Hi folks, With the latest version[1] of autoconf-archive pulled into f21+ testing, tester found that gnome-common ships some macros from autoconf-archive. I can cancel the update but the problem still exists in f22+, and might RHEL as well. The fact is gnome-common bundles macros from autoconf-archive, and my opinion of this conflict is that gnome-common should %exclude the conflicting files in %files and add Requires: autoconf-archive to the package. The conflicting files are: /usr/share/aclocal/ax_check_enable_debug.m4 /usr/share/aclocal/ax_code_coverage.m4 I've attached the patch of the spec file checked out from the repo. Please review. Hopefully this will be fixed ASAP. [1]---https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-1899/autoconf-archive-2015.02.04-1.fc21
The patch also uses the %license macro in spec file to conform to the latest revision of the Packaging Licensing Guideline[1]. [1]---https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines
Thanks for the report. I split your commit into two (one for the autoconf-archive fix and one for the %license change), and pushed them to master, f22 and f21 branches. Do you want to submit an update which includes both packages?
(In reply to David King from comment #2) > Thanks for the report. I split your commit into two (one for the > autoconf-archive fix and one for the %license change), and pushed them to > master, f22 and f21 branches. > > Do you want to submit an update which includes both packages? No I think you can submit gnome-common, with less karma for pushing to stable(I will +1 there).
I don't thin(In reply to Christopher Meng from comment #3) > No I think you can submit gnome-common, with less karma for pushing to > stable(I will +1 there). I don't think that is a good idea. Both packages need to go stable at the same time, and the only way of ensuring that is to add gnome-common-3.14.0-2.fc21 to the autoconf-archive update. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_HOWTO?rd=PackageMaintainers/UpdatingPackageHowTo#Updating_inter-dependent_packages
OK, but I don't have rights to push updates of gnome-common, so please submit an update if you can. BTW, shouldn't the updated gnome-common Requires: autoconf-archive as well? Is it serious?
s/shouldn't/should/
(In reply to Christopher Meng from comment #5) > OK, but I don't have rights to push updates of gnome-common, so please > submit an update if you can. As the page that I linked to explains, you need to ask Release Engineering if you run into permissions problems with multiple packages in an update: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/newticket I can file the ticket if you prefer. > BTW, should the updated gnome-common Requires: autoconf-archive as well? > Is it serious? It does, which seems correct to me (it does not need to BuildRequires, as the macros are not used at build time): http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/gnome-common.git/commit/?h=f21&id=c7e46ed9a7871908e0ce25d214c5393de9c11db4
Submitted as: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/6106
Being a provenpackager, I can create the update, do we have both package built? Could I have the two exact nevr ?
Sure, they are gnome-common-3.14.0-2.fc21 and autoconf-archive-2015.02.04-1.fc21.
gnome-common-3.14.0-2.fc21,autoconf-archive-2015.02.04-1.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-common-3.14.0-2.fc21,autoconf-archive-2015.02.04-1.fc21
(In reply to Christopher Meng from comment #3) > No I think you can submit gnome-common, with less karma for pushing to > stable(I will +1 there). FTR, this is not good practice nor a good idea (as David already pointed out).
Package gnome-common-3.14.0-2.fc21, autoconf-archive-2015.02.04-1.fc21: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gnome-common-3.14.0-2.fc21 autoconf-archive-2015.02.04-1.fc21' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-2158/gnome-common-3.14.0-2.fc21,autoconf-archive-2015.02.04-1.fc21 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
gnome-common-3.14.0-2.fc21, autoconf-archive-2015.02.04-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.