Packaging/Review Guidelines change

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 11:53 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 01:28 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > The order, in which the two packages are uninstalled, is the important
> > thing. If the one, which owns the directory in the RPM database, were
> > uninstalled first, the directory would remain in the file system and
> > would not belong to any package.
> 
> For the record, I pointed this out in yesterday's FESCO meeting, and I
> gather the consensus was "let's get rpm fixed instead of continuing to
> work around its bugs".  See eg. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/89740 and
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/158577

This decision is based on the assumption that
* there is a strict and constant hierarchy in directory ownership
* there is a strict and constant hierarchy in package dependency

Both assumptions are wrong and subject to change at any time 
=> FESCO is in error of making this decision mandatory.

Ralf