rpmlint [was]: Intent to Package: BloGTK
Ville Skyttä
ville.skytta at iki.fi
Mon Mar 21 20:14:09 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 20:28 +0100, Iago Rubio wrote:
> Is rpmlint a valid information source for rpm sanity ?
No, it is an imperfect tool to catch _some_ packaging insanity.
It does often report reasonable stuff, and quite often produces false
positives.
> Before reading Brian's post, I tried rpmlint at it seems it breaks some
> of the fedora's guidelines.
If this happens, please report a bug against rpmlint, or the guidelines.
> As example it screams when a package tries to obsolete itself.
Why would a package obsolete itself? The only case I can come up with
right now is that a package tries to avoid an Epoch bump by using a
versioned Obsoletes on itself. But that sounds, well, unusual, and
unmaintainable and non-deterministic after a few package revisions.
> This error clashes with the guidelines at:
> http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/developers-guide/s1-rpm-guidelines.html
>
> 5.- The package may obsolete itself.
>
> Any hint ?
Could someone who authored those guidelines comment?
If self-obsoletion is considered ok in packages, I'll add a filter to
the rpmlint config so we'll no longer see that complaint.
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