Bug 8382

Summary:	ThinLinc listing in Red Hat software catalogue doesn't include RPMs
Product:	ThinLinc	Reporter:	Samuel Mannehed <samuel>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Bugzilla mail exporter <bugzilla-qa>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	trunk
Target Milestone:	4.18.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Unknown
Acceptance Criteria:
Attachments:	Screenshot of ThinLinc's listing in Red Hats software catalogue Screenshot of a different product listing in Red Hats software catalogue

Description Samuel Mannehed cendio

2024-07-11 11:43:49 CEST

Created attachment 1207 [details]
Screenshot of ThinLinc's listing in Red Hats software catalogue

Since the ThinLinc server RPM lacks a changelog, Red Hat refuses to include our RPM in our listing:
> Thank you for submitting your certification request. After reviewing it, we found that the rpm/RPM Version Handling test could not locate any changelog in your SPEC file. We can proceed in 2 ways :
> 
> 1.You can create a changelog for this RPM, repackage it and re-run the test. You can install the 'rpm-devtools' package, which provides several tools that can assist in creating and maintaining spec files. This will make RPM creation and editing easier for the future versions.
> 
> 2.If you still want to continue the certification without the RPM, we can go ahead and pass this certification. In that case, please be aware that you wont get the credit for the product having an RPM that follows Red Hat best practices.

Here's a link to our listing:

https://catalog.redhat.com/software/applications/detail/247297

Our product is a "Standalone application", unlike the majority which are containerized. I couldn't find any other standalone app which has an RPM attached, but here's an example of a containerized product listing, which includes "components":

https://catalog.redhat.com/software/container-stacks/detail/65083e262ba9dac6d895b685

I assume our RPM would appear similarly.

Note that both OpenText and TeamViewer do not have RPMs attached to their listings:

https://catalog.redhat.com/software/applications/detail/128355
https://catalog.redhat.com/software/applications/detail/209007

Comment 1 Samuel Mannehed cendio

2024-07-11 11:44:46 CEST

Created attachment 1208 [details]
Screenshot of a different product listing in Red Hats software catalogue

Comment 2 Pierre Ossman cendio

2024-07-22 14:48:34 CEST

We think the current presentation of ThinLinc in their catalogue is quite sufficient, so we don't see a need to do anything here.

In fact, we probably prefer users to come to us, and to use install-server rather than just the RPM. This will likely give a better experience for new users, e.g. informing that they need to run tl-setup.