[JANITOR] Duplicate directory ownership cleanups
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Jun 26 13:03:10 UTC 2009
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:42:57 +0200, Ralf wrote:
> > be fixing cases where the duplicate directory ownership is
> > acceptable, like much of the perl structure, so you don't have to worry
> > about that."
> Well, ... he just has committed patches in which he does exactly the
> opposite.
>
> He already started to break perl packages.
That would be a pitty, because it would increase the number of unowned
directories ( http://mschwendt.fedorapeople.org/dircheck-remote.py ).
May I suggest that the packaging committee uses this opportunity to
remove ambiguities from the ReviewGuidelines and PackagingGuidelines?
| [...] there are several instances where it's desirable for multiple
| packages to own a directory.
|
| https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#FileAndDirectoryOwnership
| MUST: A package must own all directories that it creates. If it does
| not create a directory that it uses, then it should require a package
| which does create that directory. [12]
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