FE Package Status of Jul 26, 2006

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Thu Jul 27 09:34:53 UTC 2006



Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 06:37:32PM +0200, Christian.Iseli at licr.org wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I checked the .xml.in files...  The .xml seem a bit out of sync.
>> I'm happy to sync them, but I'd like a go ahead first...
>>
>> The comps.xml seems in pretty poor shape ATM...  Also, some things are not 
>> completely clear to me:
> 
> I searched in the wiki, but I didn't found anything relevant, however 
> I remember that once a message was sent to a list explaining what should
> go in comps. Maybe this should be added to the wiki.
> 
> What I remember is that package and subpackages goes into comps, not 
> SRPM names. In comps there should only appear packages that are directly 
> usefull, so no library, no perl or python module (except when they
> are associated with a usefull script).
> 
> There seems to be exceptions to these exceptions since devel packages 
> appears in Development groups, and there are libs in 
> 'Engineering and Scientific'.
> 

Yes,

I thought the rule was only packages directly usefull to end users
should go in. Can we have some guidelines on this? (Maybe a point for
todays FESco meeting?)

Regards,

Hans




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