Packaging guidelines updates

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 08:33 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:

> Rather than submit every possible license to legal to see whether or not
> they would advice us to include the text or not, I proposed to the
> Fedora Extras Steering Committee (FESCO) that we keep the guideline as
> it is, and require all licenses used in a package to be included in text
> format, as %doc, in the %files section of that package. The proposal
> passed.

Whoops. I almost forgot something useful.

In perl packages where the license text is often missing, there is a
simple way to generate the needed text. In your spec, in %setup use:

   perldoc -t perlgpl > COPYING
   perldoc -t perlartistic > Artistic

Then, you can use this for your %files:

   %doc COPYING Artistic

Thanks to Ville Skyttä for reminding me of this.

~spot
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