Bug 2513647 - Review Request: rust-plotters-backend - This is used as the connector between Plotters and different backend crates
Summary: Review Request: rust-plotters-backend - This is used as the connector between...
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Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Fabio Valentini
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: https://crates.io/crates/plotters-bac...
Whiteboard: Unretirement
Depends On:
Blocks: FE-NEEDSPONSOR
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-08-10 20:14 UTC by Alex Muir
Modified: 2026-08-18 21:37 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Embargoed:
decathorpe: fedora-review?


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Description Alex Muir 2026-08-10 20:14:23 UTC
Spec URL: https://github.com/Alex-Muir/rust-plotters-backend/blob/main/rust-plotters-backend.spec
SRPM URL: https://github.com/Alex-Muir/rust-plotters-backend/blob/main/rust-plotters-backend-0.3.7-1.fc45.src.rpm
Successful Koji Build: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=148941662
Description: This is a part of Plotters, the Rust drawing and plotting library. This is used as the connector between Plotters and different backend crates.
Fedora Account System Username: scone-crusher

This is one of the many dependencies required to eventually package GNOME Resources.

This is my first package submission. I will need a sponsor. 

For prospective sponsors:
I have made some small contributions to Fedora in the recent past. A few wiki edits here: https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=SIGs/Python&action=history and one upstream pull request for argparse-manpage during Python 3.15 integration ( https://github.com/praiskup/argparse-manpage/pull/130 ), although my code change to argparse-manpage was added by someone else in the Python SIG since my PR was not merged before the dealine.

Comment 1 Fedora Review Service 2026-08-10 20:15:22 UTC
Copr build:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/build/10843849
(failed)

Build log:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/@fedora-review/fedora-review-2513647-rust-plotters-backend/srpm-builds/10843849/builder-live.log.gz

Please make sure the package builds successfully at least for Fedora Rawhide.

- If the build failed for unrelated reasons (e.g. temporary network
  unavailability), please ignore it.
- If the build failed because of missing BuildRequires, please make sure they
  are listed in the "Depends On" field


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Comment 3 Fedora Review Service 2026-08-12 02:21:34 UTC
Copr build:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/build/10851064
(succeeded)

Review template:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/@fedora-review/fedora-review-2513647-rust-plotters-backend/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/10851064-rust-plotters-backend/fedora-review/review.txt

Found issues:

- A package with this name already exists. Please check https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rust-plotters-backend
  Read more: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Naming/#_conflicting_package_names

Please know that there can be false-positives.

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Comment 4 Fabio Valentini 2026-08-18 16:01:11 UTC
This looks good, with one exception:

It looks like the crate was published on a system that doesn't support symbolic links (usually Windows without symbolic link support turned on): The "LICENSE" file contains the literal string "../LICENSE" instead of the MIT license text.

With the MIT license requiring that redistributed sources contain a copy of the original license text, this is a blocker for the review.

Please report this as a bug with the upstream project (https://github.com/plotters-rs/plotters).
You can use <https://crates.io/crates/plotters-backend/0.3.7/code/LICENSE> as a public link where this issue is apparent.

Comment 5 Alex Muir 2026-08-18 21:37:26 UTC
Upstream bug report: https://github.com/plotters-rs/plotters/issues/743


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