Packaging/Review Guidelines change
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Jan 6 10:57:01 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:49 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 11:11 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> > => FESCO is in error of making this decision mandatory.
>
> >From the guidelines: "If you feel that you have a good reason to own a
> file or directory that another package owns, then please present that at
> package review time."
The point is: This exception is the general case. The case of depending
on directories from "filesystem" is a special case.
So, disallowing packages to own directories from "filesystem" is useful,
all of the rest is non-sense and semi-functional work-arounds to bugs in
rpm.
Ralf
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