Bug 2392425 - Review Request: morserunner - Amateur radio morse code contest simulator
Summary: Review Request: morserunner - Amateur radio morse code contest simulator
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Petr Menšík
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: https://github.com/zmetzing/MorseRunner
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-09-01 16:51 UTC by Jaroslav Škarvada
Modified: 2025-10-25 21:02 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2025-10-07 08:54:30 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:
pemensik: fedora-review+


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Github zmetzing MorseRunner pull 2 0 None open Add license file and remove BSD-like warranty from Readme 2025-09-17 13:39:50 UTC

Description Jaroslav Škarvada 2025-09-01 16:51:11 UTC
Spec URL: https://jskarvad.fedorapeople.org/morserunner/morserunner.spec
SRPM URL: https://jskarvad.fedorapeople.org/morserunner/morserunner-1.68z%5e20250901git29590a67-1.fc41.src.rpm
Description: Amateur radio morse code contest simulator.
Fedora Account System Username: jskarvad

Comment 1 Fedora Review Service 2025-09-01 16:55:37 UTC
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Comment 2 Artur Frenszek-Iwicki 2025-09-13 14:29:54 UTC
> %global git_commit 29590a6719c725bc95730e72213a00ef92cfa489
> %global git_date 20250901
Looking at the upstream repo, that commit is dated 2022-05-23, not 2025-09-01.

> BuildRequires:	lazarus
This will pull in the whole graphical IDE. You can BR "lazarus-tools" and "lazarus-lcl-gtk2" instead,
to get only the command-line tools, for a smaller install size.

> %build
> %make_build
Looking at the upstream Makefile, "make all" only calls lazbuild.
You could call lazbuild yourself and avoid "BuildRequires: make" this way.

Comment 3 Petr Menšík 2025-09-17 11:26:51 UTC
I lack attempt to propose full license text to upstream. I am not even sure what the original license for the work is.

It does not seem to be MPL-2.0 from original author. https://www.dxatlas.com/MorseRunner/ says it is freeware. It would not be allowed into Fedora in that case. It seems primary blocker to me.

The only thing similar to license seems at the end of the README.

https://github.com/zmetzing/MorseRunner/blob/master/Readme.txt#L303

It looks like 0BSD license [1], but without critical line stating copying and redistribution is okay. Without such line I think this cannot be considered open-source or free software. Adding just external MPL-2.0 licensefile to is would be changing license of the other people and is not permitted IMO.

In fact, it seems this license is actually BSD-1-Clause like [2], which would not be a free software.

But. Okay, I missed that in original Main.pas in oldest commit I could find. Initial VE3NEA commit [3] already contains MPL-2.0 reference. That indeed indicates code should be covered by MPL, even though readme has some partial BSD like license. But especially for this reason, it should be clarified upstream and license file included upstream too, unless it is refused.

Created issue #9 on original repository [4], it would be nice to have this clarified by the original author.

But I would require at least pull request reference with request to add license file into the current repository source as minimal action.

1. https://spdx.org/licenses/0BSD.html
2. https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-1-Clause.html
3. https://github.com/VE3NEA/MorseRunner/commit/68972b0af28d74cc15e45f20d440a91ff394ae21#diff-cec3def47689c344e54cac3b2c7dd5f33f4ad5204aec540254959bd35c8bb34cR2
4. https://github.com/VE3NEA/MorseRunner/issues/9

Comment 4 Petr Menšík 2025-09-17 11:44:45 UTC
I think it might be executed with a helper runner in Linux, which would cd into ~/.local/share/morserunner, create symlink to /usr/share/morserunner/Master.dta. It would make the file accessible from current directory like the program expects. Okay, ini file would not be in ~/.config then, unless similar symlink were prepared for ini file. But it would allow to avoid fixed downstream patch changing paths and have unmodified pascal code. Making morserunner-1.68z-linux-dirs.patch patch not necessary. It could work both on Windows and Linux with the same code.

Comment 5 Petr Menšík 2025-09-17 13:39:50 UTC
A bit surprisingly original author reacted to license issue right away, created https://github.com/zmetzing/MorseRunner/pull/2 to request license inclusion into that fork too.

Comment 6 Petr Menšík 2025-09-18 09:11:57 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", "*No copyright* Mozilla Public License
     2.0", "BSD 2-Clause License". 21 files have unknown license. Detailed
     output of licensecheck in
     /home/pemensik/fedora/rawhide/2392425-morserunner/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.
[-]: 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.
[x]: 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]: Package contains desktop file if it is a GUI application.
[x]: Package installs a %{name}.desktop using desktop-file-install or
     desktop-file-validate if there is such a file.
[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 8448 bytes in 1 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).
[?]: Package functions as described.
[x]: Latest version is packaged.
[!]: Package does not include license text files separate from upstream.
[x]: Patches link to upstream bugs/comments/lists or are otherwise
     justified.
[-]: 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.
[!]: %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 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: morserunner-1.68z^20250901git29590a67-1.fc44.x86_64.rpm
          morserunner-1.68z^20250901git29590a67-1.fc44.src.rpm
============================ rpmlint session starts ============================
rpmlint: 2.6.1
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/tmprew2uxi6')]
checks: 32, packages: 2

morserunner.x86_64: W: position-independent-executable-suggested /usr/bin/MorseRunner
morserunner.x86_64: W: no-manual-page-for-binary MorseRunner
morserunner.spec: W: no-%check-section
 2 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 3 warnings, 7 filtered, 0 badness; has taken 0.4 s 




Rpmlint (debuginfo)
-------------------
Checking: morserunner-debuginfo-1.68z^20250901git29590a67-1.fc44.x86_64.rpm
============================ rpmlint session starts ============================
rpmlint: 2.6.1
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/tmpxcwpup65')]
checks: 32, packages: 1

 1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings, 7 filtered, 0 badness; has taken 0.7 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

morserunner.x86_64: W: unused-direct-shlib-dependency /usr/bin/MorseRunner /lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
morserunner.x86_64: W: position-independent-executable-suggested /usr/bin/MorseRunner
morserunner.x86_64: W: no-manual-page-for-binary MorseRunner
 2 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 3 warnings, 10 filtered, 0 badness; has taken 0.4 s 



Source checksums
----------------
https://github.com/zmetzing/MorseRunner/archive/29590a6719c725bc95730e72213a00ef92cfa489/morserunner-29590a6719c725bc95730e72213a00ef92cfa489.tar.gz :
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) this package     : 4057f526b292a9fc7731c551f7aabbec41b9e0b5f044db13fe8f2a9ae69c087f
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) upstream package : 4057f526b292a9fc7731c551f7aabbec41b9e0b5f044db13fe8f2a9ae69c087f


Requires
--------
morserunner (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    hicolor-icon-theme
    libSDL-1.2.so.0()(64bit)
    libX11.so.6()(64bit)
    libatk-1.0.so.0()(64bit)
    libc.so.6()(64bit)
    libcairo.so.2()(64bit)
    libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
    libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
    libglib-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
    libgmodule-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
    libgobject-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
    libgthread-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
    libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
    libpango-1.0.so.0()(64bit)
    rtld(GNU_HASH)



Provides
--------
morserunner:
    application()
    application(morserunner.desktop)
    morserunner
    morserunner(x86-64)



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Comment 7 Jaroslav Škarvada 2025-10-06 16:30:28 UTC
(In reply to Artur Frenszek-Iwicki from comment #2)
> > %global git_commit 29590a6719c725bc95730e72213a00ef92cfa489
> > %global git_date 20250901
> Looking at the upstream repo, that commit is dated 2022-05-23, not
> 2025-09-01.
>
AFAIK it's not commit date, but checkout date. It's probably redundant with the git hashes, but useful with e.g. CVS where the "commit ID"/change can be the same, but the commit could be modified after the checkout.

> > BuildRequires:	lazarus
> This will pull in the whole graphical IDE. You can BR "lazarus-tools" and
> "lazarus-lcl-gtk2" instead,
> to get only the command-line tools, for a smaller install size.
> 
I will update it.

> > %build
> > %make_build
> Looking at the upstream Makefile, "make all" only calls lazbuild.
> You could call lazbuild yourself and avoid "BuildRequires: make" this way.
>
I will use the upstream Makefile, the additional 'make' dependency is negligible.

Comment 8 Jaroslav Škarvada 2025-10-06 16:37:45 UTC
Petr thanks for the review. I will probably use the patch for now, the code change isn't problem, because the upstream doesn't seem to develop the fork more. In the future I would like to package much better community edition version of the software (https://groups.io/g/MorseRunnerCE) which shares the same core codebase, but at the moment doesn't work on Linux and will require a lot of work (and patches) to get it working in Linux.

Comment 9 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2025-10-07 08:16:28 UTC
The Pagure repository was created at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/morserunner

Comment 10 Jaroslav Škarvada 2025-10-07 08:35:52 UTC
(In reply to Jaroslav Škarvada from comment #7)
> > > BuildRequires:	lazarus
> > This will pull in the whole graphical IDE. You can BR "lazarus-tools" and
> > "lazarus-lcl-gtk2" instead,
> > to get only the command-line tools, for a smaller install size.
> > 
> I will update it.
> 
It didn't work in rawhide:
DEBUG util.py:459:  No match for argument: lazarus-lcl-gtk2
DEBUG util.py:459:  No match for argument: lazarus-tools
So I stuck with the lazarus.

Comment 11 Jaroslav Škarvada 2025-10-07 08:43:45 UTC
(In reply to Jaroslav Škarvada from comment #10)
> (In reply to Jaroslav Škarvada from comment #7)
> > > > BuildRequires:	lazarus
> > > This will pull in the whole graphical IDE. You can BR "lazarus-tools" and
> > > "lazarus-lcl-gtk2" instead,
> > > to get only the command-line tools, for a smaller install size.
> > > 
> > I will update it.
> > 
> It didn't work in rawhide:
> DEBUG util.py:459:  No match for argument: lazarus-lcl-gtk2
> DEBUG util.py:459:  No match for argument: lazarus-tools
> So I stuck with the lazarus.

Ah, got it, the problem is probably that the lazarus isn't available for the s390x.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2025-10-07 09:27:27 UTC
FEDORA-2025-7533dc39b4 (morserunner-1.68z^20250901git29590a67-1.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-7533dc39b4

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2025-10-07 09:28:02 UTC
FEDORA-2025-fba73feabc (morserunner-1.68z^20250901git29590a67-1.fc42) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 42.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-fba73feabc

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2025-10-07 09:28:26 UTC
FEDORA-2025-9ea0f20e06 (morserunner-1.68z^20250901git29590a67-1.fc41) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 41.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-9ea0f20e06

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2025-10-08 01:46:38 UTC
FEDORA-2025-7533dc39b4 has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-7533dc39b4`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-7533dc39b4

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

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2025-10-08 02:13:42 UTC
FEDORA-2025-fba73feabc has been pushed to the Fedora 42 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-fba73feabc`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-fba73feabc

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

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2025-10-08 02:36:36 UTC
FEDORA-2025-9ea0f20e06 has been pushed to the Fedora 41 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-9ea0f20e06`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-9ea0f20e06

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

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2025-10-16 01:13:02 UTC
FEDORA-2025-fba73feabc (morserunner-1.68z^20250901git29590a67-1.fc42) has been pushed to the Fedora 42 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 19 Fedora Update System 2025-10-16 01:35:08 UTC
FEDORA-2025-9ea0f20e06 (morserunner-1.68z^20250901git29590a67-1.fc41) has been pushed to the Fedora 41 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 20 Fedora Update System 2025-10-25 21:02:54 UTC
FEDORA-2025-7533dc39b4 (morserunner-1.68z^20250901git29590a67-1.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


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