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Common Package Specification — A cross-tool mechanism for locating software dependencies

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Forks
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Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
44
Dominant language
Python
License
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Last GitHub push
Jun 26, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 15, 2026
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Beginner labels
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  • Spec: `c-runtime-vendor` field also should document the "musl" typical value
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100

    cps-org/cps#120 ·

  • [discussion] Shipping Static/Shared builds of a component under a single name
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#119 ·

  • [discussion/proposal] supplemental provenance information
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    cps-org/cps#113 · 1 comment ·

  • [proposal] Conditional flags based on the consumer compiler
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 40/100

    cps-org/cps#112 · 6 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Support for name mapping
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    cps-org/cps#111 · 15 comments ·

  • Add "implementation details" section to schema
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 45/100

    cps-org/cps#109 · 3 comments ·

  • static libraries that need to be linked with whole-archive downstream
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    cps-org/cps#101 · 1 comment ·

  • Proposal: Add `package_url` and `package_provider` to CPS supplemental schema
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement help wanted scheduled

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    cps-org/cps#97 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Appendices should be optional
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    cps-org/cps#91 · 1 comment ·

  • CPS "releases" should be tagged
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    cps-org/cps#82 · 2 reactions ·

  • Glob search order should be "specified"
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug need discussion

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    cps-org/cps#81 · 3 comments ·

  • Compatibility Information in CPS Files
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    need feedback

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#80 · 5 comments ·

  • ambiguous on disk names for component and configurations vs packages with `-` in their name
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#79 · 6 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Definition of "isa" has an OS-specific vocabulary and various other corner cases
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    help wanted need discussion

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    cps-org/cps#78 · 7 comments ·

  • CI confusing error
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    scheduled

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    cps-org/cps#74 ·

  • Debug information
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#72 · 4 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Package name specification needs refinement
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement scheduled

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    cps-org/cps#68 · 4 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • JSON schemas for supplemental files
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    cps-org/cps#65 ·

  • cps_version missing from example
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug help wanted scheduled

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

    cps-org/cps#57 ·

  • special casing fallback behavior when attribute is set to null will make it more difficult to tool against
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    help wanted scheduled

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#56 · 5 comments ·

  • CPS should have component visibility
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement help wanted scheduled

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    cps-org/cps#53 · 2 comments ·

  • Location required for component type extensions?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    documentation

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    cps-org/cps#52 · 1 comment ·

  • Reconsider link-libraries
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug help wanted scheduled

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    cps-org/cps#51 · 2 comments ·

  • Search locations should be better defined on Windows
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    cps-org/cps#47 · 1 reaction ·

  • Justification for Compiler and Linker Features
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    question

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#43 · 6 comments ·

  • Case Study: absl_time_zone
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    documentation question

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

    cps-org/cps#36 · 7 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • How to represent header-only libraries
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    documentation scheduled

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#35 · 6 comments ·

  • `Location` vs `Link-Location` issues
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    documentation scheduled

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#34 · 7 comments ·

  • Support for "special" libraries
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement need discussion

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#32 · 11 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • CPS needs to do development fully in the open if it's going to replace pkg-config
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    cps-org/cps#30 · 5 comments · 6 reactions ·

  • How are build systems supposed to choose configurations of transitive dependencies?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#27 · 9 comments ·

  • Should configurations like `static` and/or `shared` be blessed by the specification?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement scheduled

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    cps-org/cps#26 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

  • Custom Licenses
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    cps-org/cps#24 · 2 reactions ·

  • Runtime dependencies
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement need discussion

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#20 · 9 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Interface manifests
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#18 · 4 comments ·

  • When is -Werror a usage requirement?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#15 · 3 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • specifying dependencies on projects without cps
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement help wanted need discussion

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#14 · 2 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • How to encode the MSVC CRT
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#11 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • composing cps files (or how to handle debug builds created seperately)
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    documentation help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#10 · 2 comments ·

  • better representation for language standards
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#9 · 2 comments ·

  • component specific data
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#4 · 2 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • Currently cannot support multiple languages or non-clike languages
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement help wanted need discussion

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#3 · 1 comment · 6 reactions ·

  • Issues with the "Kernel" and "Kernel-Version" attributes
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cps-org/cps#1 · 11 comments ·

  • Use a tools section, rather than X-tool
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?
    need discussion scheduled

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    cps-org/cps#5 · 29 comments · 2 reactions ·

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