Bug 960664 - Review Request: chicken - A practical and portable Scheme system
Summary: Review Request: chicken - A practical and portable Scheme system
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Torrie Fischer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-05-07 15:35 UTC by Rick Elrod
Modified: 2013-12-14 13:30 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: chicken-4.8.0.3-4.el6
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-05-26 02:55:44 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:
tdfischer: fedora-review+
gwync: fedora-cvs+


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Description Rick Elrod 2013-05-07 15:35:16 UTC
Spec URL: http://codeblock.fedorapeople.org/packages/chicken/chicken.spec
SRPM URL: http://codeblock.fedorapeople.org/packages/chicken/chicken-4.8.0.3-1.fc19.src.rpm
Description:
CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language.
CHICKEN produces portable, efficient C, supports almost all of the R5RS
Scheme language standard, and includes many enhancements and extensions.

Fedora Account System Username: codeblock

rpmlint output:

ricky@t520 ~/rpmbuild/SPECS$ rpmlint chicken.spec 
0 packages and 1 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings.

ricky@t520 ~/rpmbuild/SPECS$ rpmlint chicken
chicken-scheme.x86_64: W: devel-file-in-non-devel-package /usr/include/chicken/chicken-config.h
chicken-scheme.x86_64: W: devel-file-in-non-devel-package /usr/lib64/libchicken.so
chicken-scheme.x86_64: W: devel-file-in-non-devel-package /usr/include/chicken/chicken.h
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 3 warnings.

Justification: These are actually runtime dependencies - Chicken generates C code from Scheme code, and the C code uses these devel files.

There are two other bz reviews for this package, but both of them stalled due to unresponsiveness.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=819919
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874980

Aside from those being stalled, they also don't bootstrap the Scheme code - they only compile the released, generated, C code. The FPC recommends bootstrapping in this case, and has approved my request to do so, here: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/285#comment:6 )

To try building this for review, build the spec as-is (with %bootstrap = 1), install the resulting RPM to the buildroot, set %bootstrap = 0, and build the new srpm in the buildroot. If using mock, make sure to pass --no-clean, so the buildroot doesn't get nuked between the two phases.

Comment 1 Torrie Fischer 2013-05-08 16:21:59 UTC
Taking for a review

Comment 2 Torrie Fischer 2013-05-08 16:24:40 UTC
Overall, looks to be an exemplary piece of packaging work. Well done.

My only question:

    Provides: chicken-scheme-doc = %{version}-%{release}

Whats the point of that, if it already provides a chicken-doc package? Alternatively, why not rename the whole package to chicken-scheme instead of just chicken.

Comment 3 Rick Elrod 2013-05-08 16:28:12 UTC
I will nuke the Provides in favor of keeping the package named "chicken" - it's called chicken in most distros: http://wiki.call-cc.org/platforms

Thanks.

Comment 4 Rick Elrod 2013-05-08 16:33:35 UTC
New Package SCM Request
=======================
Package Name: chicken
Short Description: A practical and portable Scheme system
Owners: codeblock
Branches: f18 f19 el6
InitialCC:

Comment 5 Gwyn Ciesla 2013-05-08 17:06:36 UTC
Git done (by process-git-requests).

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-05-08 20:16:19 UTC
chicken-4.8.0.3-3.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/chicken-4.8.0.3-3.el6

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2013-05-08 20:17:32 UTC
chicken-4.8.0.3-3.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/chicken-4.8.0.3-3.fc18

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2013-05-09 09:56:54 UTC
chicken-4.8.0.3-3.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2013-05-11 10:00:52 UTC
chicken-4.8.0.3-4.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/chicken-4.8.0.3-4.fc18

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2013-05-11 11:21:55 UTC
chicken-4.8.0.3-4.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/chicken-4.8.0.3-4.el6

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2013-05-26 02:55:44 UTC
chicken-4.8.0.3-4.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2013-05-27 19:05:17 UTC
chicken-4.8.0.3-4.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Michael Schwendt 2013-12-14 13:30:19 UTC
With regard to bug 1001262 (duplicate docs due to F20UnversionedDocDirs change), the following questions have turned up:

 * Why has a separate -doc subpackage been created for the documentation? It is only 300KB small. It would be really okay to include it in the base package. That would also be a very easy way to fix bug 1001262.

 * Why is the -doc subpackage not "noarch"?

 * For the base package, a split between runtime and build-time/development would have made sense. Compiled programs will be linked with libchicken, which could reside in a -libs runtime subpackage.


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