Spec URL: http://prabindatta.fedorapeople.org/SPECS/python-timelib.spec SRPM URL: http://prabindatta.fedorapeople.org/SRPMS/python-timelib-0.2.2-1.fc14.src.rpm Description: timelib is a short wrapper around php's internal timelib module.
Koji Build: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3069166 Runtime test: [prabindatta@localhost ~]$ python Python 2.7 (r27:82500, Sep 16 2010, 18:03:06) [GCC 4.5.1 20100907 (Red Hat 4.5.1-3)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import timelib >>> timelib.strtodatetime('today') datetime.datetime(2011, 5, 13, 0, 0) >>> timelib.strtodatetime('next friday') datetime.datetime(2011, 5, 20, 0, 0) >>> timelib.strtodatetime('next monday') datetime.datetime(2011, 5, 16, 0, 0) >>> timelib.strtodatetime('29 feb 2008 -108 years') datetime.datetime(1900, 3, 1, 0, 0) >>> import time, timelib >>> time.ctime(timelib.strtotime("now")) 'Fri May 13 12:09:59 2011' >>> time.ctime(timelib.strtotime("4 hours ago")) 'Fri May 13 08:10:08 2011' >>> time.ctime(timelib.strtotime("20080229 - 1 year")) 'Thu Mar 1 05:30:00 2007' >>> ** This package is one the dependency package of "python-mwlib-0.12.14"
ext-date-lib is include in this package. This is not allowed according to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines [1]. Your description claims that this is just a wrapper for the PHP internal timelib module, so this module should be a BR or a runtime requirement. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#No_inclusion_of_pre-built_binaries_or_libraries
@Fabian: Here the ext-date-lib is not a prebuild-binary package and source code of ext-date-lib is attached with the timelib package by upstream. "I am still in the basic level of package maintainer's level" Can you kindly explain me why this is not allowed according to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines?
On IRC channel #fedora-devel <gholms> has explained me. I am sending a mail upstream with the hope that they will resolve this issue.
Any news from upstream?
/---- Upstreams Reply: no, sorry. that is IMHO the packager's job. ----/ Currently, I don't have sufficient time to edit the code.
Any progress here?