Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 17:38 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> > The only problem with that is that just about every packaging guideline
> > has _some_ valid exceptions (that's why they're all guidelines...) and
> > it's rather hard to build exceptions into an automatic testing system in
> > a way which doesn't get horribly crufty in a hurry.
> 
> If exceptions become a problem because they are applied to many packages,
> it would still be possible to adjust the guidelines or mark the packages
> with special metadata comments in their .spec files. Then packagers would
> need to make use of an exception _explicitly_, showing that what they do
> is intentional.

Yup, indeed - this is the approach MDV uses for its rpmlint checks (you
can code an exception into the spec file if it's justified).
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