On 2025/04/17 10:28, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
On 16/04/2025 13:47, Aoife Moloney wrote:
== Benefit to Fedora ==
* Avoid packaging issue due to the current assumption that the the
paths used are meant to be absolute paths.
* Encourage upstream build system modernization and standardization.
Sorry, but I'm still skeptical about this change. I don't see any real benefits for Fedora. I only see additional pain for maintainers.
I think these non-standard variables are better stay in cmake.macros rather than added to each individual package where they are required.
The goal is to fix them usptream for the benefit of upstream and
other packaging ecosystems. Inevitably some upstreams are dead, in
which case a downstream definition would be preferred, but also
it's a good reminder to check if those packages are used anymore.
So far as I've raised this issue with upstream they were positive to the migration. Of course I had to be the one to write the PR for the migration, but I don't expect it to be any other way. This is why this change proposal does not have a deadline. Feel free to tag me on the upstream, if upstream is opposed.
As for downstream benefits, it is much easier to do fixes
globally in the GNUInstallDirs or in the cmake package, where the
definition of these variables is well documented and with the help
of policy switches. I am also up to fixing some of the
longstanding CMake issues that affect packaging, so feel free to
ping me on some of them that I should investigate.
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