Packaging/Review Guidelines change

[Enrico Scholz]

tcallawa at redhat.com ("Tom 'spot' Callaway") writes:

> MUST: Packages must not own files or directories already owned by
> other packages. The rule of thumb here is that the first package to be
> installed should own the files or directories that other packages may
> rely upon. This means, for example, that no package in Fedora Extras
> should ever share ownership with any of the files or directories owned
> by the filesystem or man package. 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.
>
> This is a policy that has been enforced for sometime, but never actually
> added to the guidelines (until now).

What is with directories like

/usr/share/locale/C
/usr/share/locale/nl_BE
/usr/share/locale/uk_UA

?


Enrico
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