Bug 2372946 - Review Request: msedit - Simple editor inspired by the MS-DOS Editor
Summary: Review Request: msedit - Simple editor inspired by the MS-DOS Editor
Keywords:
Status: POST
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Neal Gompa
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: https://github.com/microsoft/edit
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-06-16 03:39 UTC by Julius Enriquez
Modified: 2025-06-19 06:29 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:
Type: ---
Embargoed:
ngompa13: fedora-review+


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Patch to spec to rename to msedit (987 bytes, patch)
2025-06-16 06:23 UTC, Neal Gompa
no flags Details | Diff
Updated patch to rename edit to msedit (988 bytes, patch)
2025-06-16 06:25 UTC, Neal Gompa
no flags Details | Diff
Patch to spec to handle libicu correctly (1.11 KB, patch)
2025-06-17 07:21 UTC, Neal Gompa
no flags Details | Diff
The .spec file difference from Copr build 9178978 to 9181665 (400 bytes, patch)
2025-06-18 19:24 UTC, Fedora Review Service
no flags Details | Diff

Description Julius Enriquez 2025-06-16 03:39:45 UTC
Spec URL: https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/julicen/edit/fedora-42-aarch64/09164335-edit/edit.spec
SRPM URL: https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/julicen/edit/fedora-42-aarch64/09164335-edit/edit-1.2.0-1.fc42.src.rpm
Description:
A text editor that pays homage to the classic MS-DOS Editor, but with a modern
interface and input controls similar to VS Code. The goal is to provide an
accessible editor that even users largely unfamiliar with terminals can easily
use.
Fedora Account System Username: julicen

This creates a package for the Microsoft Edit text editor, otherwise known as "edit" in the binary. This is a TUI (text-based user interface) text editor that is inspired heavily by MS-DOS Editor and Visual Studio Code.

Koji build task:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=134024052

Comment 1 Neal Gompa 2025-06-16 06:22:36 UTC
This collides with vim, which provides "edit". Microsoft recommends calling it "msedit" instead.

Taking this review.

Comment 2 Neal Gompa 2025-06-16 06:23:56 UTC
Created attachment 2094113 [details]
Patch to spec to rename to msedit

Here's a suggestion of how to rename to msedit. Note the spec file also needs to be renamed to msedit.spec.

Comment 3 Neal Gompa 2025-06-16 06:25:32 UTC
Created attachment 2094114 [details]
Updated patch to rename edit to msedit

Oops, slight tweak to spec update

Comment 4 Neal Gompa 2025-06-16 06:30:32 UTC
Other spec review comments:

* This is missing accurate licensing information wrt statically linked dependencies, per Rust packaging guidelines
  - Since this was originally generated from rust2rpm, it should have had the stuff to generate the documentation and guide you for filling out the License tag properly.
  - SourceLicense is missing too.

Comment 5 Julius Enriquez 2025-06-16 12:28:21 UTC
Updated Spec URL: https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/julicen/edit/fedora-rawhide-aarch64/09165318-msedit/msedit.spec
Updated SRPM URL: https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/julicen/edit/fedora-rawhide-aarch64/09165318-msedit/msedit-1.2.0-1.fc43.src.rpm

Based on Neal's patch changing the name to msedit and adds in licensing info from rust2rpm and the LICENSE.dependencies file.

Also upstream has been notified in this GitHub pull request that their software is in the process of being packaged in Fedora:
https://github.com/microsoft/edit/pull/487

Comment 6 Fedora Review Service 2025-06-17 05:02:05 UTC
Copr build:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/build/9168868
(succeeded)

Review template:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/@fedora-review/fedora-review-2372946-edit/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/09168868-msedit/fedora-review/review.txt

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Comment 7 Neal Gompa 2025-06-17 07:21:53 UTC
Created attachment 2094177 [details]
Patch to spec to handle libicu correctly

To fix the libicu issue, here's a trivial patch to work around it. Ideally, msedit should do the soversion searching itself.

Comment 8 Julius Enriquez 2025-06-17 20:14:22 UTC
Updated SPEC URL: https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/julicen/edit/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/09172384-msedit/msedit.spec
Updated SRPM URL: https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/julicen/edit/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/09172384-msedit/msedit-1.2.0-1.fc43.src.rpm

Can confirm that with Neal's patch for libicu soversion search, text search in msedit can work without libicu-devel as a runtime dep.

Comment 9 Julius Enriquez 2025-06-17 20:15:48 UTC
Koji build task:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=134085502

Comment 11 Julius Enriquez 2025-06-18 05:40:59 UTC
Koji build task:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=134097109

Comment 12 Fedora Review Service 2025-06-18 10:31:01 UTC
Copr build:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/build/9178978
(succeeded)

Review template:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/@fedora-review/fedora-review-2372946-msedit/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/09178978-msedit/fedora-review/review.txt

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Comment 13 Neal Gompa 2025-06-18 10:52:52 UTC
Package Review
==============

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



===== 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* Public
     domain", "*No copyright* Creative Commons Attribution 4.0". 28 files
     have unknown license. Detailed output of licensecheck in
     /home/ngompa/2372946-msedit/licensecheck.txt
[x]: %build honors applicable compiler flags or justifies otherwise.
[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]: Useful -debuginfo package or justification otherwise.
[x]: Package is not known to require an ExcludeArch tag.
[x]: 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]: The License field must be a valid SPDX expression.
[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]: Large documentation must go in a -doc subpackage. Large could be size
     (~1MB) or number of files.
     Note: Documentation size is 7941 bytes in 4 files.
[x]: Packages must not store files under /srv, /opt or /usr/local

===== 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).
[x]: Package functions as described.
[x]: Latest version is packaged.
[x]: Package does not include license text files separate from upstream.
[x]: Patches link to upstream bugs/comments/lists or are otherwise
     justified.
[x]: Sources are verified with gpgverify first in %prep if upstream
     publishes signatures.
     Note: gpgverify is not used.
[x]: Package should compile and build into binary rpms on all supported
     architectures.
[x]: %check is present and all tests pass.
[x]: Packages should try to preserve timestamps of original installed
     files.
[-]: Spec use %global instead of %define unless justified.
     Note: %define requiring justification: %define autorelease(e:s:pb:n)
     %{?-p:0.}%{lua:
[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.

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

Generic:
[x]: Rpmlint is run on debuginfo package(s).
     Note: No rpmlint messages.
[x]: Rpmlint is run on all installed packages.
     Note: There are rpmlint messages (see attachment).
[x]: Large data in /usr/share should live in a noarch subpackage if package
     is arched.
[x]: Spec file according to URL is the same as in SRPM.


Rpmlint
-------
Checking: msedit-1.2.0-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm
          msedit-1.2.0-1.fc43.src.rpm
============================ rpmlint session starts ============================
rpmlint: 2.7.0
configuration:
    /usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/rpmlint/configdefaults.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora-legacy-licenses.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora-spdx-licenses.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/scoring.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/users-groups.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/warn-on-functions.toml
rpmlintrc: [PosixPath('/tmp/tmpquis3r8k')]
checks: 32, packages: 2

msedit.src: W: summary-ended-with-dot A simple editor for simple needs.
msedit.x86_64: W: summary-ended-with-dot A simple editor for simple needs.
msedit.x86_64: W: no-manual-page-for-binary msedit
 2 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 3 warnings, 7 filtered, 0 badness; has taken 0.2 s 




Rpmlint (debuginfo)
-------------------
Checking: msedit-debuginfo-1.2.0-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm
============================ rpmlint session starts ============================
rpmlint: 2.7.0
configuration:
    /usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/rpmlint/configdefaults.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora-legacy-licenses.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora-spdx-licenses.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/scoring.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/users-groups.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/warn-on-functions.toml
rpmlintrc: [PosixPath('/tmp/tmplshyp2pq')]
checks: 32, packages: 1

 1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings, 5 filtered, 0 badness; has taken 0.1 s 





Rpmlint (installed packages)
----------------------------
============================ rpmlint session starts ============================
rpmlint: 2.7.0
configuration:
    /usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/rpmlint/configdefaults.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora-spdx-licenses.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/scoring.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/users-groups.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/warn-on-functions.toml
checks: 32, packages: 2

msedit.x86_64: W: summary-ended-with-dot A simple editor for simple needs.
msedit.x86_64: W: no-manual-page-for-binary msedit
 2 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 2 warnings, 9 filtered, 0 badness; has taken 0.2 s 



Source checksums
----------------
https://github.com/microsoft/edit/archive/v1.2.0/edit-1.2.0.tar.gz :
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) this package     : e4ba6ff1bfecfeff2492306f5850c714bf50ffdb3cc3bb5be3aa987289f240fe
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) upstream package : e4ba6ff1bfecfeff2492306f5850c714bf50ffdb3cc3bb5be3aa987289f240fe


Requires
--------
msedit (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    libc.so.6()(64bit)
    libgcc_s.so.1()(64bit)
    libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0)(64bit)
    libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.3)(64bit)
    libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_4.2.0)(64bit)
    libicui18n.so.76()(64bit)
    libicuuc.so.76()(64bit)
    libm.so.6()(64bit)
    rtld(GNU_HASH)



Provides
--------
msedit:
    msedit
    msedit(x86-64)



Generated by fedora-review 0.10.0 (e79b66b) last change: 2023-07-24
Command line :/usr/bin/fedora-review -b 2372946 -m fedora-rawhide-x86_64
Buildroot used: fedora-rawhide-x86_64
Active plugins: Generic, Shell-api
Disabled plugins: C/C++, Java, Ocaml, PHP, Python, Perl, R, Haskell, SugarActivity, fonts
Disabled flags: EXARCH, EPEL6, EPEL7, DISTTAG, BATCH

Comment 14 Neal Gompa 2025-06-18 10:54:36 UTC
> msedit.src: W: summary-ended-with-dot A simple editor for simple needs.
> msedit.x86_64: W: summary-ended-with-dot A simple editor for simple needs.

This should be changed to "Simple editor inspired by the MS-DOS Editor" to provide a much clearer and compliant summary.

Comment 16 Fedora Review Service 2025-06-18 19:24:07 UTC
Created attachment 2094268 [details]
The .spec file difference from Copr build 9178978 to 9181665

Comment 17 Fedora Review Service 2025-06-18 19:24:09 UTC
Copr build:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/build/9181665
(succeeded)

Review template:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/@fedora-review/fedora-review-2372946-msedit/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/09181665-msedit/fedora-review/review.txt

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Comment 18 Neal Gompa 2025-06-19 06:27:17 UTC
Package was generated with rust2rpm, simplifying the review.

✅ package contains only permissible content
✅ package builds and installs without errors on rawhide
✅ test suite is run and all unit tests pass
✅ latest version packaged
✅ license matches upstream specification and is acceptable for Fedora
✅ license file is included with %license in %files
✅ package complies with Rust Packaging Guidelines

Package APPROVED.

===

Recommended post-import tasks:

- set up package on release-monitoring.org: https://release-monitoring.org/project/378257/

- add @rust-sig with "commit" access as package co-maintainer

- track package in koschei for all built branches
  (should happen automatically once rust-sig is co-maintainer)

Comment 19 Neal Gompa 2025-06-19 06:29:09 UTC
I've also sponsored you to become a packager in Fedora.

Welcome to the Fedora Project and have fun contributing! :)


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