Re: Review queue/FESCo after the merge

["Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 14:30 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> For the record:
> 1. I disagreed with this change when it was first posted on fedora-devel.
> 2. I still disagree with this change
> 3. I actually maintain font packages (just in case some people still
> think that's relevant to comment on associated guidelines)
> 4. The associated scriplet barfed once in years of use by many
> packages (and not even on a stable release but during a rawhide
> update!), because of actual packaging bugs in one package. I don't
> think one transaction error in years is such a huge price to pay to
> keep our packages sane

While I understand what you're saying, we adopted the policy that %post
should never ever fail, because it has the potential to really destroy a
large transaction. It was an accidental omission on that specific
section, which is why I corrected it. In fact, I thought I had already
done it a while ago, but had forgotten to.

I have read your font guideline drafts, and I think they are rather
good. We simply just don't want any scriptlets to fail, no matter how
unlikely or contained the failure may be.

Please don't take it personally. :)

~spot