FESCo Meeting Summary for 2007-02-08

[Matthias Saou]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote :

> >>>>> "MS" == Matthias Saou <thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net> writes:
> 
> MS> What's the rationale behind this?
> 
> Picking a single value that meets the technical requirements so that
> package reviewers can be spared unending confusion over whether a
> particular buildroot is sufficient and unending argument between
> packagers and reviewers which wastes everyone's time.
> 
> It takes all of two seconds to fix it.

Changing it doesn't "fix" anything. If we have to pick something for the
short term, then I'd suggest this :

* Mandatory : The BuildRoot must start with
%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}. The preferred value is
%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n).

And that's it for now. Let the real fix come in later.

Right now we have a _mandatory_ value which has been approved last
week, but already a new possible value to be ratified :

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/GuidelinesTodo

It makes really little sense to me to have changed this now. Can I
politely ask the packaging committee to reconsider this point?

Matthias

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