Bug 243416 - Package should require yelp for its help
Summary: Package should require yelp for its help
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: usbsink
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jef Spaleta
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-06-08 16:28 UTC by Matěj Cepl
Modified: 2018-04-11 06:48 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-07-08 10:09:36 UTC
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Description Matěj Cepl 2007-06-08 16:28:34 UTC
This package uses yelp for its help. Therefore, it should require package yelp for its operation.

[Filed by a script; forgive him if he made a mistake for once.]

Comment 1 Christopher Aillon 2007-06-09 22:51:08 UTC
All of these bug reports are (most likely) wrong.  The package should NOT
require yelp.  We went through effort to ensure that yelp is not a requirement
for the desktop.

You should ask yourself: will the package fail to work if yelp is not installed?
 If not, do not require yelp.

If you have already committed this fix blindly, I ask that you consider undoing
it so derivative projects can continue using your package without help if they
so choose.

We have added yelp to the default install via comps so that all installs get
yelp by default unless they specifically ask for it to be removed.  We should
honor that.  Please undo your changes if you have made them and/or mark this bug
WONTFIX.  Thanks.

Comment 2 Jef Spaleta 2007-06-09 23:49:26 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> All of these bug reports are (most likely) wrong.  The package should NOT
> require yelp.  We went through effort to ensure that yelp is not a requirement
> for the desktop.

Do we have any written guidance to maintainers and package reviewers with regard
to this? We have explicit exceptions for BuildRequires in the packaging guidance
but nothing with regard to explicit exceptions for Requires afaik.  If yelp is
designed to go missing, then people involved in that design decision need to
provide written guidance to that fact and place it in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines so as to inform everyone
getting involved as a package maintainer/reviewer has a fair chance of running
across this information.  If this isn't made clear in the guidance, we are just
going to keep running into this over and over again as new people walk into the
process looking to "help". 

-jef

Comment 3 Hans de Goede 2007-07-08 10:09:36 UTC
Mass closing all of these mass filed bug reports, as they were wrongly filed, as
explained in comment #1, and as discussed on the mailinglist.



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