Bug 2126146 - Review Request: conan - Open-source C/C++ package manager
Summary: Review Request: conan - Open-source C/C++ package manager
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Benson Muite
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-09-12 14:53 UTC by Vitaly Zaitsev
Modified: 2023-07-13 05:23 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2022-09-24 00:16:08 UTC
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benson_muite: fedora-review+


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Description Vitaly Zaitsev 2022-09-12 14:53:01 UTC
Spec URL: https://xvitaly.fedorapeople.org/for-review/conan.spec
SRPM URL: https://xvitaly.fedorapeople.org/for-review/conan-2.0.0-0.1.beta3.fc36.src.rpm
Description: Conan is a package manager for C and C++ developers
Fedora Account System Username: xvitaly

Comment 1 Benson Muite 2022-09-14 15:28:42 UTC
It does not build on rawhide or f37:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/fed500/conan/build/4836763/

nothing provides requested (python3dist(distro) <= 1.6 with python3dist(distro) >= 1.0.2)

Comment 2 Vitaly Zaitsev 2022-09-14 16:32:37 UTC
> nothing provides requested (python3dist(distro) <= 1.6 with python3dist(distro) >= 1.0.2)

Good catch. Thanks. Patched out all hardcoded versions.

Spec URL: https://xvitaly.fedorapeople.org/for-review/conan.spec
SRPM URL: https://xvitaly.fedorapeople.org/for-review/conan-2.0.0-0.1.beta3.fc36.src.rpm

Comment 3 Benson Muite 2022-09-16 09:31:42 UTC
The requirements.txt file is in the folder conans, not in the top level folder.  Can you update the sed command in the spec file?

Comment 4 Vitaly Zaitsev 2022-09-16 11:03:21 UTC
> The requirements.txt file is in the folder conans, not in the top level folder.  Can you update the sed command in the spec file?

Fixed.

Spec URL: https://xvitaly.fedorapeople.org/for-review/conan.spec
SRPM URL: https://xvitaly.fedorapeople.org/for-review/conan-2.0.0-0.1.beta3.fc36.src.rpm

Comment 5 Benson Muite 2022-09-18 12:57:16 UTC
Package Review
==============

Legend:
[x] = Pass, [!] = Fail, [-] = Not applicable, [?] = Not evaluated
[ ] = Manual review needed



===== MUST items =====

Generic:
[x]: Package is licensed with an open-source compatible license and meets
     other legal requirements as defined in the legal section of Packaging
     Guidelines.
[x]: License field in the package spec file matches the actual license.
     Note: Checking patched sources after %prep for licenses. Licenses
     found: "Unknown or generated", "MIT License", "*No copyright* MIT
     License", "*No copyright* [generated file]". 769 files have unknown
     license. Detailed output of licensecheck in
     /home/FedoraPackaging/reviews/conan/2126146-conan/licensecheck.txt
[x]: Package contains no bundled libraries without FPC exception.
[x]: Changelog in prescribed format.
[x]: Sources contain only permissible code or content.
[-]: Package contains desktop file if it is a GUI application.
[-]: Development files must be in a -devel package
[x]: Package uses nothing in %doc for runtime.
[x]: Package consistently uses macros (instead of hard-coded directory
     names).
[x]: Package is named according to the Package Naming Guidelines.
[x]: Package does not generate any conflict.
[x]: Package obeys FHS, except libexecdir and /usr/target.
[-]: If the package is a rename of another package, proper Obsoletes and
     Provides are present.
[x]: Requires correct, justified where necessary.
[x]: Spec file is legible and written in American English.
[-]: Package contains systemd file(s) if in need.
[x]: Package is not known to require an ExcludeArch tag.
[-]: Large documentation must go in a -doc subpackage. Large could be size
     (~1MB) or number of files.
     Note: Documentation size is 20480 bytes in 2 files.
[?]: Package complies to the Packaging Guidelines
[x]: Package successfully compiles and builds into binary rpms on at least
     one supported primary architecture.
[x]: Package installs properly.
[x]: Rpmlint is run on all rpms the build produces.
     Note: There are rpmlint messages (see attachment).
[x]: If (and only if) the source package includes the text of the
     license(s) in its own file, then that file, containing the text of the
     license(s) for the package is included in %license.
[x]: Package requires other packages for directories it uses.
[x]: Package must own all directories that it creates.
[x]: Package does not own files or directories owned by other packages.
[x]: Package uses either %{buildroot} or $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
[x]: Package does not run rm -rf %{buildroot} (or $RPM_BUILD_ROOT) at the
     beginning of %install.
[x]: Macros in Summary, %description expandable at SRPM build time.
[x]: Dist tag is present.
[x]: Package does not contain duplicates in %files.
[x]: Permissions on files are set properly.
[x]: Package must not depend on deprecated() packages.
[x]: Package use %makeinstall only when make install DESTDIR=... doesn't
     work.
[x]: Package is named using only allowed ASCII characters.
[x]: Package does not use a name that already exists.
[x]: Package is not relocatable.
[x]: Sources used to build the package match the upstream source, as
     provided in the spec URL.
[x]: Spec file name must match the spec package %{name}, in the format
     %{name}.spec.
[x]: File names are valid UTF-8.
[x]: Packages must not store files under /srv, /opt or /usr/local

Python:
[-]: Python eggs must not download any dependencies during the build
     process.
[-]: A package which is used by another package via an egg interface should
     provide egg info.
[?]: Package meets the Packaging Guidelines::Python
[x]: Package contains BR: python2-devel or python3-devel
[x]: Packages MUST NOT have dependencies (either build-time or runtime) on
     packages named with the unversioned python- prefix unless no properly
     versioned package exists. Dependencies on Python packages instead MUST
     use names beginning with python2- or python3- as appropriate.
[x]: Python packages must not contain %{pythonX_site(lib|arch)}/* in %files
[x]: Binary eggs must be removed in %prep

===== SHOULD items =====

Generic:
[-]: If the source package does not include license text(s) as a separate
     file from upstream, the packager SHOULD query upstream to include it.
[x]: Final provides and requires are sane (see attachments).
[?]: Package functions as described.
[x]: Latest version is packaged.
[x]: Package does not include license text files separate from upstream.
[-]: Sources are verified with gpgverify first in %prep if upstream
     publishes signatures.
     Note: gpgverify is not used.
[?]: Package should compile and build into binary rpms on all supported
     architectures.
[!]: %check is present and all tests pass.
[x]: Packages should try to preserve timestamps of original installed
     files.
[x]: Reviewer should test that the package builds in mock.
[x]: Buildroot is not present
[x]: Package has no %clean section with rm -rf %{buildroot} (or
     $RPM_BUILD_ROOT)
[x]: No file requires outside of /etc, /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin.
[x]: Packager, Vendor, PreReq, Copyright tags should not be in spec file
[x]: Sources can be downloaded from URI in Source: tag
[x]: SourceX is a working URL.
[x]: Spec use %global instead of %define unless justified.

===== EXTRA items =====

Generic:
[x]: Rpmlint is run on all installed packages.
     Note: There are rpmlint messages (see attachment).
[x]: Spec file according to URL is the same as in SRPM.


Rpmlint
-------
Cannot parse rpmlint output:


Rpmlint (installed packages)
----------------------------
============================ rpmlint session starts ============================
rpmlint: 2.2.0
configuration:
    /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rpmlint/configdefaults.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/licenses.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/scoring.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/users-groups.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/warn-on-functions.toml
checks: 32, packages: 1

conan.noarch: W: no-manual-page-for-binary conan
 1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 1 warnings, 0 badness; has taken 
1.5 s 



Source checksums
----------------
https://github.com/conan-io/conan/archive/2.0.0-beta3/conan-2.0.0-beta3.tar.gz :
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) this package     : 186d8c5ceced14055ecb6f5507f83e868c29feb749
6475410c829482288b915d
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) upstream package : 186d8c5ceced14055ecb6f5507f83e868c29feb749
6475410c829482288b915d


Requires
--------
conan (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    /usr/bin/python3
    cmake
    gcc
    gcc-c++
    git-core
    ninja-build
    python(abi)
    python3.11dist(colorama)
    python3.11dist(distro)
    python3.11dist(fasteners)
    python3.11dist(jinja2)
    python3.11dist(patch-ng)
    python3.11dist(python-dateutil)
    python3.11dist(pyyaml)
    python3.11dist(requests)
    python3.11dist(urllib3)



Provides
--------
conan:
    conan
    python3.11dist(conan)
    python3dist(conan)



Generated by fedora-review 0.9.0 (6761b6c) last change: 2022-08-23
Command line :/usr/bin/fedora-review -b 2126146
Buildroot used: fedora-rawhide-x86_64
Active plugins: Python, Generic, Shell-api
Disabled plugins: R, fonts, Java, PHP, Ocaml, Haskell, C/C++, SugarActivity, Perl
Disabled flags: EPEL6, EPEL7, DISTTAG, BATCH, EXARCH

Comments:
a) Is it possible to run the tests https://github.com/conan-io/conan#running-the-tests  especially since the dependency requirements have been relaxed. Probably short versions (python -m pytest . -m "not slow") are sufficient, though these also take some time.  Maybe good to upstream weaker dependency requirements if tests pass rather than removing dependency requirements completely if upstream is responsive to this.  If a test failure is not important, maybe good to note this.
b) The version on PyPi is 1.5.2 not the 2.0.0-Beta https://pypi.org/project/conan/ do you expect to package the release version of 2.0.0?
c) Might the name python3-conans/python-conans or a virtual provider with this name also be used? See https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Python/#_application_naming
d) The license is included twice:
usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/conan-2.0.0b3.dist-info/LICENSE.md
usr/share/licenses/conan/LICENSE.md
The line
%license LICENSE.md 
can be removed from the spec file

Comment 6 Vitaly Zaitsev 2022-09-18 13:22:42 UTC
> Is it possible to run the tests

Most of their tests require network access. Not suitable for Fedora. Also I don't want to handle with upstream tests failures.

> The version on PyPi is 1.5.2 not the 2.0.0-Beta https://pypi.org/project/conan/ do you expect to package the release version of 2.0.0?

Yes. Version 1.x require an ancient versions of some Python libraries and upstream refuses to update their project to match modern API.

> Might the name python3-conans/python-conans or a virtual provider with this name also be used?

This is a self-contained package with a well-known name. It doesn't provide any libraries for third-parties usage.

> d) The license is included twice:
> usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/conan-2.0.0b3.dist-info/LICENSE.md
> usr/share/licenses/conan/LICENSE.md

Yes, conan-2.0.0b3.dist-info/LICENSE.md can be removed.

Comment 7 Benson Muite 2022-09-18 17:48:03 UTC
The file in dist-info follows Python packaging guidelines, probably better to have two copies of the licenses then assuming that is ok.

Updating distro to 1.7.0 seems to work, https://github.com/conan-io/conan/pull/12140 maybe it is better to do that than drop all the limits in requirements.txt if a test fails, when changing these, one can report upstream and hopefully get it fixed which should ensure the package works correctly.

Comment 8 Ben Beasley 2022-09-18 17:57:02 UTC
Was there something specific you wanted from me?

Comment 9 Benson Muite 2022-09-18 18:16:20 UTC
Thanks Ben, you have allowed for 2 copies of the license file in some of your Python packaging reviews. I do not know if this is documented anywhere? In this case it would seem to make sense since Python will want metadata information, but regular packaging places the license file in a different location. Is an exception required?

Comment 10 Vitaly Zaitsev 2022-09-18 18:19:19 UTC
> Updating distro to 1.7.0 seems to work, https://github.com/conan-io/conan/pull/12140 maybe it is better to do that than drop all the limits in requirements.txt

Removing pinned versions is a good thing for distribution packaging.

> if a test fails, when changing these, one can report upstream and hopefully get it fixed which should ensure the package works correctly.

Conan upstream don't care about downstream packaging at all. They're hostile.

Comment 11 Benson Muite 2022-09-19 04:42:09 UTC
Ok. Upstream seems responsive on updating the version dependencies - the pull request was approved. Their CI will catch test failures which would not be caught by an unversioned set of dependencies, but understand if this makes maintenance more troublesome.  I guess users can report if something does not work.

Approved.

Comment 12 Gwyn Ciesla 2022-09-19 14:16:19 UTC
(fedscm-admin):  The Pagure repository was created at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/conan

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2022-09-19 17:23:26 UTC
FEDORA-2022-30516e0a65 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 36. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-30516e0a65

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2022-09-19 17:23:27 UTC
FEDORA-2022-23e483e942 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 37. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-23e483e942

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2022-09-20 01:38:38 UTC
FEDORA-2022-30516e0a65 has been pushed to the Fedora 36 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf install --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2022-30516e0a65 \*`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-30516e0a65

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

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2022-09-20 01:49:58 UTC
FEDORA-2022-23e483e942 has been pushed to the Fedora 37 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf install --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2022-23e483e942 \*`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-23e483e942

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

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2022-09-24 00:16:08 UTC
FEDORA-2022-23e483e942 has been pushed to the Fedora 37 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2022-09-28 12:10:49 UTC
FEDORA-2022-30516e0a65 has been pushed to the Fedora 36 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 19 Ben Beasley 2023-07-13 05:23:01 UTC
(In reply to Benson Muite from comment #9)
> Thanks Ben, you have allowed for 2 copies of the license file in some of
> your Python packaging reviews. I do not know if this is documented anywhere?
> In this case it would seem to make sense since Python will want metadata
> information, but regular packaging places the license file in a different
> location. Is an exception required?

Explictly say %license files don't need to be relative (installed in /usr/share/licenses) 
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/1223


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