Packaging/Review Guidelines change

[Matthias Saou]

Enrico Scholz wrote :

> 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

My guess : Let %find_lang do its magic for these, and if it owns them, then
get that macro fixed ;-)

Matthias

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