Recapitulate the current state of Fedora Extras and some ideas to make it better

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 23:58 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 21:50 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > As a first step, every packager (and package submitter) ought to use
> > rpmlint manually more often and run it also on the binary rpms.
> 
> And preferably also on _installed_ packages.
> 
> Currently IIRC the only difference in rpmlint between checking
> uninstalled and installed binary rpms is that the latter fakes some
> checks to always succeed that make no sense for installed packages, and
> additionally checks for undefined non-weak symbols in shared libs.  But
> it's likely that other useful checks that make sense for installed
> packages only will be introduced in the future.

Unowned directory checks for instance?

Paul.