<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <<a href="mailto:tibbs@math.uh.edu">tibbs@math.uh.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> >>>>> "CW" == Chris Weyl <<a href="mailto:cweyl@alumni.drew.edu">cweyl@alumni.drew.edu</a>> writes: CW> Tibbs suggested bringing this before the FPC... It sounds like it CW> makes sense to do it this way, though I'm still unclear as to how CW> to get it on the agenda. Well, I do post the instructions with the FPC agenda that I post to fedora-devel-list before every meeting: Read <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#Guideline_Change_Procedure" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#Guideline_Change_Procedure</a>, Make a draft Add it to <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/DraftsTodo" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/DraftsTodo</a> But fear not, because I made sure it came up at our meeting on Tuesday. Basically, the concept is sound but we'd like to see it in the form of a set of packaging guidelines, and we'd like the changes to the perl provides behavior that are hidden down in the macro file to be split out and discussed separately. The discussion starts at <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Minutes/20090602#t12:39" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Minutes/20090602#t12:39</a></blockquote><div> Excellent, thank you :) I read through the minutes, and rewrote it as a guidelines draft and added it to DraftsTodo; I took out the %perl_default_filtering bits and can either propose those separately or can just take them up as potentially being included as an /etc/rpm/macros.perl in the main perl package. I also included an admonition to be careful of using this sort of filtering in a multilib situation, due to Panu's comments. <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering</a> </div></div> The revised macros (no changes, really, just split out the %perl_... bit) are out at: <a href="http://fedorapeople.org/~cweyl/macros.filtering">http://fedorapeople.org/~cweyl/macros.filtering</a> <a href="http://fedorapeople.org/~cweyl/macros.perl">http://fedorapeople.org/~cweyl/macros.perl</a> -Chris -- Chris Weyl Ex astris, scientia