Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

Meeting minutes and full logs of the packaging committee meeting which
occurred on 2008-04-08 are online:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes20080408

The following drafts are now official guidelines, having been accepted
by FESCO last week:
 * SysV-style initscript guidelines:
   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SysVInitScript
 * Java packaging guidelines:
   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Java
 * Eclipse plugin guidelines:
   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/EclipsePlugins
 * GCJGuidelines:
   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/GCJGuidelines

These should be written into the guidelines soon if this hasn't
already been done by the time you read this.

Issues pending FESCO ratification:

 * No packages may own files or dirs in /srv
  * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/NoBitsInSrv
  * This is a new draft this week
  * Target release: F10 (including fixing noncompliant packages by
    then)
  * Accepted (6 - 0)
  * Voting for: tibbs spot Rathann abadger1999 racor hansg rdieter

 * Update the GCJ guidelines to require that it be called
   conditionally
  * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ConditionalGCJ
  * A modification to the existing GCJ guidelines, new this week.
  * Accepted (6 - 0)
  * Voting for: abadger1999 spot tibbs rdieter Rathann hansg


Other business:

 * Naming all packages in lowercase
  * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ASCIINamingLowercase
  * This is a new draft.
  * Not Accepted (1 - 4)
  * Voting for: agadger1999
  * Voting against: tibbs spot hansg racor
  * Abstaining: Rathann rdieter

 * Revisiting the jpackagage naming exception
  * The original exception is at
    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/JPackagePolicy; the
    committee is revisiting the exception.
  * The committee requests from the Java group "a list of information
    as to why they need the jpp tag, specifically, how they're using
    it, by May 8th."  The committee will revisit the issue then.
  * Accepted (5 - 0)
  * Voting for: tibbs abadger1999 spot rdieter hansg

 * Sugar Activity Guidelines
  * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DennisGilmore/SugarActivityGuidelines
  * A new draft this week
  * Some issues were identified:
   * arch-specific activities should not install under /usr/share
   * /usr/share/activities is rather generic
  * The draft is tabled until the next meeting.

The meeting ended with a long discussion of the packaging of static
libraries and the conditions under which static libraries are
allowable in the -devel pacuage.  This was triggered by the discussion
in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430545.  There was no
written proposal.

Next meeting in two weeks: 2008-04-22. 

 - J<