[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 17:00 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 23:46 +0200, Jean-François Martin wrote:
> > Le mardi 22 avril 2008 à 16:25 -0500, Josh Boyer a écrit :
> > > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 16:08 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > > > Two changes have recently been made to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines.
> > > > 
> > > > Specifically:
> > > > 
> > > > The main Fedora Packaging Guidelines now has a section which forbids packages 
> > > > to own files or directories under /srv. This new section can be found here:
> > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#NoFilesOrDirectoriesUnderSrv
> > > > 
> > > > As a reminder, any Fedora packages which are currently owning files or directories 
> > > > under /srv need to be fixed before the release of Fedora 10.
> > > 
> > > Or what?  And who's going to verify that?
> > > 
> > yum whatprovides /srv/* ?
> 
> That's a way to detect packages yes.  My question was more directed at
> what happens to packages that aren't fixed and _who_ is actually going
> to verify they are fixed.  Not how.

I volunteered to audit packages for compliance in the F10 cycle.

~spot