hplip: hp-toolbox advertising?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 21:34 -0600, Bernard Johnson wrote:
> 
>> Sorry, that wasn't meant to be chronological.
>>
>> But the fact remains that the package is expected to conform to the
>> package guideline, which is why there is a mass review, to bring all
>> core packages into compliance.
> 
> The packaging committee is not the sole ruler of all things in Fedora,
> and the packaging guidelines are just a tool that has its limits. If
> something in the packaging guidelines does not make sense for one of my
> packages, I will take the freedom to deviate from the guidelines. 

Packaging committee is indeed not the role ruler. The reason why they 
are called guidelines instead of rules is precisely because there is 
sometimes a need for exceptions and to give freedom to the package 
maintainers. However individual package maintainers completely 
disregarding the guidelines in a arbitrary way is going to be pretty messy.

If there is a justification to deviate from the guidelines it should be 
brought in fedora-maintainers list. The guidelines might need to changed 
to accommodate requirements the packaging committee hasn't thought of 
before or in some corner cases a specific package needs to have a 
exception which should be documented within the spec file itself. Can 
you do this?

Rahul