Bug 2476394 - Review Request: rust-ping - Simple and naive ping implementation in Rust
Summary: Review Request: rust-ping - Simple and naive ping implementation in Rust
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Status: POST
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Beasley
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: https://crates.io/crates/ping
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: FE-NEEDSPONSOR 2468596
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-05-12 05:27 UTC by Zhaojiang Sun
Modified: 2026-09-23 08:44 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Zhaojiang Sun 2026-05-12 05:27:22 UTC
Spec URL: https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/skyr0ver/brush/srpm-builds/10447327/rust-ping.spec
SRPM URL: https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/skyr0ver/brush/srpm-builds/10447327/rust-ping-0.7.1-1.fc45.src.rpm
Description: ping is a Rust library providing a simple and naive ping library implementation. This is my first package, and I am seeking for a sponsor.
Fedora Account System Username: skyr0ver

Comment 1 Fedora Review Service 2026-05-13 03:39:20 UTC
Copr build:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/build/10452576
(succeeded)

Review template:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/@fedora-review/fedora-review-2476394-rust-ping/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/10452576-rust-ping/fedora-review/review.txt

Please take a look if any issues were found.


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Comment 2 Ben Beasley 2026-06-16 13:00:01 UTC
The COPR build has been garbage-collected, and the URLs now give 404 errors, so this can’t be reviewed. Consider uploading your submission somewhere more durable, like fedorapeople.org (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/fedorapeople.org).

Comment 3 Fabio Valentini 2026-06-23 09:21:28 UTC
> Consider uploading your submission somewhere more durable, like fedorapeople.org

This is usually good, but not an option for people who are not yet in the "packager" group since they don't have access to fedorapeople.org.

Comment 5 Fedora Review Service 2026-06-26 09:14:12 UTC
Copr build:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/build/10652496
(succeeded)

Review template:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/@fedora-review/fedora-review-2476394-rust-ping/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/10652496-rust-ping/fedora-review/review.txt

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Comment 9 Ben Beasley 2026-09-23 05:20:48 UTC
Package Review
==============

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

The spec file is generated by rust2rpm, simplifying the review. Compared to the
output of rust2rpm without a rust2rpm.toml config file,

- rpmautospec macros are expanded
- A test is skipped, properly and with good justification: 

  +# * bind_device requires root previledges, which cannot be satisfied
  +%cargo_test -- -- --exact --skip bind_device

  If you aren’t already handling this in rust2rpm.toml, you can do it like
  this:

    [tests]
    comments = [
        "bind_device requires root privileges, which cannot be satisfied",
    ]
    skip-exact = true
    skip = [
        "bind_device",
    ]

  Note that there’s a typo in the comment about the skipped tests: previledges
  should be privileges. Typos in comments are common and not serious, but it’s
  nice to fix them.

Issues:
=======
- Package does not contain duplicates in %files.
  Note: warning: File listed twice:
  /usr/share/cargo/registry/ping-0.8.0/LICENSE
  See: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-
  guidelines/#_duplicate_files

  OK: not a serious problem; due to reasonable rust2rpm design decisions

- Version 0.9 is available. Please update if you can. I am assuming that you
  are packaging this in order to support a larger project (since library-only
  Rust packages are really only useful as dependencies), so you might have to
  patch your intended reverse dependency for compatibility.

Notes (no change required):
===========================

- It’s a little confusing that the license is just MIT, but the README mentions
  that code under (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) is used from tokio-ping, and both
  tokio-ping license files are present. Downstream, under the “just list all
  the licenses and don’t do any algebraic simplifications” philosophy, we would
  normally write the license expression as “MIT AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)”. It
  seems upstream is implying the code from tokio-ping is used under the MIT
  license option and freely intermingled with MIT-only code. I guess the
  upstream license of MIT is OK under this interpretation. It might merit some
  kind of a comment explaining the situation.

===== 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* Apache
     License 2.0". 14 files have unknown license. Detailed output of
     licensecheck in /home/ben/fedora/review/2476394-rust-
     ping/licensecheck.txt
[x]: License file installed when any subpackage combination is installed.
[x]: %build honors applicable compiler flags or justifies otherwise.
[x]: Package contains no bundled libraries or specifies bundled libraries
     with Provides: bundled(<libname>) if unbundling is not possible.
[x]: Changelog in prescribed format.
[x]: Sources contain only permissible code or content.
[-]: Package contains desktop file if it is a GUI application.
[x]: 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.
[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: No rpmlint messages.
[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]: 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 0 bytes in 0 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]: Fully versioned dependency in subpackages if applicable.
     Note: No Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release} in rust-
     ping-devel , rust-ping+default-devel
[x]: Package functions as described.

     (tests pass)

[!]: Latest version is packaged.

     Version 0.9 is available.

[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.
[x]: Package should compile and build into binary rpms on all supported
     architectures.

     https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=150522675

[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:

     The %define macros are only from rpmautospec macro expansions, and this
     advice is dubious anyway,
     https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/1449/.

[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 all installed packages.
     Note: No rpmlint messages.
[x]: Spec file according to URL is the same as in SRPM.


Rpmlint
-------
Checking: rust-ping-devel-0.8.0-1.fc46.noarch.rpm
          rust-ping+default-devel-0.8.0-1.fc46.noarch.rpm
          rust-ping-0.8.0-1.fc46.src.rpm
============================ rpmlint session starts ============================
rpmlint: 2.8.0
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
rpmlintrc: [PosixPath('/tmp/tmp4rslogoi')]
checks: 32, packages: 3

 3 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings, 13 filtered, 0 badness; has taken 0.3 s 




Rpmlint (installed packages)
----------------------------
============================ rpmlint session starts ============================
rpmlint: 2.10.0
configuration:
    /usr/lib/python3.15/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: 33, packages: 2

 2 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings, 9 filtered, 0 badness; has taken 0.0 s 



Source checksums
----------------
https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/ping/0.8.0/download#/ping-0.8.0.crate :
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) this package     : fb19e959ef149db2aaedfb5317bd0770b06d2ff811145ade123a456f883e2e04
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) upstream package : fb19e959ef149db2aaedfb5317bd0770b06d2ff811145ade123a456f883e2e04


Requires
--------
rust-ping-devel (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    (crate(rand/default) >= 0.8.0 with crate(rand/default) < 0.10.0~)
    (crate(socket2/all) >= 0.6.0 with crate(socket2/all) < 0.7.0~)
    (crate(socket2/default) >= 0.6.0 with crate(socket2/default) < 0.7.0~)
    (crate(thiserror/default) >= 1.0.0 with crate(thiserror/default) < 2.2.0~)
    cargo

rust-ping+default-devel (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    cargo
    crate(ping)



Provides
--------
rust-ping-devel:
    crate(ping)
    purl(pkg:cargo/ping.0)
    rust-ping-devel

rust-ping+default-devel:
    crate(ping/default)
    rust-ping+default-devel



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Comment 10 Zhaojiang Sun 2026-09-23 08:44:09 UTC
The package has been bumped to 0.9.0, with the typo in comments fixed.

Spec URL: https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/skyr0ver/brush/srpm-builds/11024232/rust-ping.spec
SRPM URL: https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/skyr0ver/brush/srpm-builds/11024232/rust-ping-0.9.0-1.fc44.src.rpm

As for the licensing issue, I went through upstream's codebase and found no modification notices as required by Apache-2.0. So, if I understand correctly, legally the code from tokio-ping can only be used under the MIT license. I've opened an issue (https://github.com/aisk/rust-ping/issues/61) to see if the author has a solution.


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