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[Xavier Bachelot]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Mar 26 février 2008 17:27, Xavier Bachelot a écrit :
> 
>> Here's another try at xerces-c27 :
>>
>> http://washington.kelkoo.net/fedora/SPECS/xerces-c27.spec
>> http://washington.kelkoo.net/fedora/SRPMS/xerces-c27-2.7.0-2.fc8.src.rpm
>>
>> rpmlint output (most of the errors are also in the original xerces-c
>> package) :
>> xerces-c27.i386: E: non-standard-executable-perm
>> /usr/lib/libxerces-depdom.so.27.0 0775
> 
> Replace your %defattr(-,root,root,-) with more specific permissions ;
> trusting every single upstream to get this right is hopeless and
> unless you audit the permissions after every update explicit defattr
> is a good safety belt.
> 
>> xerces-c27-doc.i386: W: file-not-utf8
>> /usr/share/doc/xerces-c27-doc-2.7.0/doc/migration.xml
> 
> Convert it at build time to proper UTF-8
> 
This 2 warnings (and probably the others) will be easily fixed and need 
to be fixed in the original xerces-c package too. Thanks anyway :-)
My question was more about the general shape of the 'compat' package.

Regards,
Xavier