freeworld review and mini manual (for maintainers) to update his packages .

[Brendan Jones]

On 29/11/15 18:21, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Dom, 2015-11-29 at 12:11 +0100, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
>>
>>
>> 2015-11-29 6:03 GMT+01:00 Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sáb, 2015-11-28 at 23:02 +0100, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2015-11-28 21:32 GMT+01:00 Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com>:
>>>>> Need updates :
>>>>
>>>>>   F21:
>>>>> sonic-visualiser-2.4.1-2.fc21.src.rpm
>>>>> sonic-visualiser-freeworld-2.1-2.fc21.src.rpm
>>>>> F22:
>>>>> sonic-visualiser-2.4.1-2.fc22.src.rpm
>>>>> sonic-visualiser-freeworld-2.1-2.fc22.src.rpm
>>>>> F23:
>>>>> sonic-visualiser-2.4.1-4.fc23.src.rpm
>>>>> sonic-visualiser-freeworld-2.1-2.fc22.src.rpm
>>>> Sorry, I don't understand all this.
>>>> What question are you trying to answear ?
>>>>
>>>> Because the question is not:" is the package rebuild for f23" ?
>>> but
>>>> instead:
>>>> Is the package at the correct version in f23 (in a first step).
>>>> If already at the correct version, can we keep the same build as
>>> f22
>>>> or rebuilt it for f23 (the reason for the rebuild is because it's
>>> c++
>>>> and/or there is a soname bump for it's dependencies).
>>>>
>>>> if you want me do to something, I need a "list " for free section
>>> and
>>>> the list for the nonfree section.
>>>
>>> This is a comprehensive list of all freeworld packages that are in
>>> Rpmfusion and the counter-part in Fedora. I also sent the corrects
>>> cases to show that I reviewed *all* freeworld packages.
>>>
>>> I checked F23 and also F21 and F22 , because in some cases I don't
>>> know
>>> if it need updates, for example k3b .
>>>
>>>
>>> Mini manual (for maintainers) to update his packages :
>>>
>>> For updates F22 and F23 the workflow is as follow:
>>> - The maintainer which want update his package, clone his package
>>> from
>>> github [1], modify in his account what wants and when finish block
>>> tracker bug #3820, to sync with git preview.
>>> - Provenpackager will update to git preview and move to the tracker
>>> bug
>>> #3821 to build and publish .
>>>
>>> Please open a bug report, don't need to write more than name of the
>>> package and location of modifications, is just to use the "blocks"
>>> of
>>> bugzilla.
>>> Of course this is temporary, until infra support acls ...
>>>
>>> I will send a new list of the freeworld packages soon .
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/rpmfusion/yourpackage
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> --
>>> Sérgio M. B.
>>>
>> Sorry this is not the way to go. we use bugzilla for this kind of
>> request to maintainers.
>
> First I'm exposing the data collected, second explains how we can
> update it, 3rd analyze what remains wrong, 4th open bug reports against
> components that are wrong and add "the" mini manual (for maintainers) ,
> 5th if someone want to fix it but is not the package maintainer,
> reports in same bug the patch or solutions, 6th if maintainer lacks of
> response or the patch is trivial, provenpackage can commit it and add
> the number of the bug report on the changelog of spec .
>
> I sending new list of "all" freeworld packages , also we have to
> analyze multilibs in some packages , so it is (again) the comprehensive
> list but improved and corrected .
> About split nonfree , we only have sox-plugins-nonfree and xmms2-
> nonfree but both also they have a free part.
>
>
> For complete the report, we have:
>
> - libtunepimp-extras-freeworld-0.5.3-13.fc22.src.rpm, libtunepimp is
> retired in rawhide (f24) [1]
>
> - qtractor-freeworld-0.5.7-1.fc19.src.rpm have already been kicked out
> :) but is active in Fedora [2].
>
My bad, I was thinking of retiring this in rpmfusion in any case. 
However I have still been keeping the (no mp3) patch up to date in 
Fedora. Haven't bumped this in quite a while.