fesco

#840 Packaging exception in software repos
Closed Opened by nitrogen.

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Greetings, I would be happy to see my software available in the repositories, as an exception of Fedora packaging policy. The program is called chromium-downloader, it determines the currently running Fedora version, downloads RPMs (or SRPMs if wanted) from spot's repo at fedorapeople.org and installs them

= reason =
This piece of software can be useful, since Chromium isn't in Fedora repos (for technical reasons, the license is OK)

= recommendation =
Please, if possible, make an exception, and allow chromium-downloader to be packaged and distributed through official Fedora repositories

How does the software actually work? We have some positive precedent for an application to download data thats nonfree from the games SIG. We have a definite negative precedent for adding yum repositories to /etc/yum/repos.d. So there might be some element of implementation informing the decision here.

Additional general principles that might inform a decision:

  • "if it's good enough, it should go into Fedora itself."
  • How would spot feel about his package being installed via this method?

This is essentially the same as bundling a repo file for spot's fedorapeople repo in a Fedora package. Since that is explicitly forbidden, I don't see why this should be allowed.

I agree with notting, this is a non-starter. This would additionally open the door for any package that doesn't meet the guidelines to be added without having to comply with them.

This was rejected by FESCO at the 2012-04-30 meeting:

agreed #840 Packaging exception in software repos is rejected (+0,-:5,0:0)
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