Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

[Jerry James]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Florian Festi<ffesti at redhat.com> wrote:
> The Noarch Sub Package Feature continues in F12. I just updated the package
> lists and statistics on the Feature page[1]. I want to thank all the brave
> package maintainers that converted some of their sub packages in the short
> time frame before the F11 freeze and so gave us a test run before changing a
> larger number of packages in F12.
>
> For package maintainer things that have been said before are still valid
> (surprisingly Fedora didn't change much during the freeze). -doc, language
> and -common packages are still the main candidates for being switched to
> noarch while game or other data files are typical candidates for being split
> into a new noarch sub package.

Do you have any idea when
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502401 is going to be
fixed?  I'm reluctant to convert any more of my subpackages to noarch
while that bug persists, given what happens when people try to install
the noarch subpackages that I maintain (gcl-emacs and gcl-xemacs).

Sure, I could make those subpackages Obsolete their former selves, but
that won't help me with other people's noarch subpackages.  I've
already had to upgrade several of those by hand due to this bug on my
shiny new F-11 install.
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/