Summary of the 2007-10-30 Packaging Committee meeting

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

Meeting minutes and full logs of the packaging committee meeting which
occurred on 2007-10-30 are online:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes20071030

Executive summary:

No new guidelines this week.

Issues pending FESCO ratification:

* Standardizing the set of virtual provides for various servers:
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ServerProvides
  * Accepted (5 - 0)
  * Voting for: spot rdieter abadger1999 tibbs f13
  * There is still tweaking to be done, and because this will require
    changes to several packages, FPC is asking that this be driven via
    the feature process for F-9.

* Specifying the location for FORTRAN 90 .mod files:
   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/FortranModulesDir
  * Accepted (5 - 0)
  * Voting for: spot rdieter f13 abadger1999 tibbs

Misc business:
 * FPC discussed the acceptability of metapackages.  The opinions of
   FESCo and other interested parties are welcomed here.

 - J<