[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0097-0098] Makefile: replace perl with sed

Jan Cholasta jcholast at redhat.com
Mon Apr 25 07:59:37 UTC 2016


On 25.4.2016 09:34, Petr Spacek wrote:
> On 25.4.2016 09:29, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
>> On (25/04/16 07:23), Jan Cholasta wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 22.4.2016 13:29, Petr Spacek wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Makefile: add sed to BuildRequires
>>>>
>>>> It was requried since forever but we did not explicitly mention it.
>>>
>>> IIRC sed is part of the minimum build environemnt and as such should not be
>>> explicitly required in the spec file. I personally don't care, but this is
>>> the likely reason why it wan't there from the beginning.
>>>
>> +1
>>
>> It is part of group "@buildsys-build".
>> and fedora packaging guidelines does not recommend to list
>> packages from this group in BuildRequires.
>
> I consider this piece of Fedora guidelines brain-dead as "explicit is better
> than implicit". Anyway, feel free to NACK it so the status of the patch is
> clear and this thread can die. I do not insist on it.

I can't find it in the guidelines anymore, so LGTM.

-- 
Jan Cholasta




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